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...nation’s largest private facilities maintenance companies. Harvard outsources much of its janitorial work to UNICCO. The janitors are working with the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), which helped janitors at Harvard achieve a living wage in 2002 and last semester negotiated a $5 per hour pay rise. SEIU National Communications Coordinator Renee Asher said in a phone-call to the SLAM members and Miami janitors that Harvard students have a unique ability to influence Miami President Donna E. Shalala to act. Citing rumors that Shalala might be in the running for the vacant Harvard presidency, Asher pushed...
...Chevy Blazer, honking her horn and waving to the mayor of New Orleans. "God bless you, Mayor," shouts a guy in a busted pickup. It is a little after 7 a.m. and the mayor is standing in a grassy median, ignoring fumes from three lanes of rush-hour traffic to glad-hand voters in hopes of getting reelected in the city that Hurricane Katrina battered and left for dead. "Thank you, baby, need your help!" Nagin says, reaching into a car to shake hands. An African-American man in dreadlocks hops out of his car to have his picture taken...
...confusion of the race. "People are really going to have to work to educate themselves, rather than depend on somebody else to feed them the information. Most of the so-called political experts are totally lost right now," he says with a laugh before turning back to his rush-hour audience. "How ya?ll doin?" says Nagin, handing out a brochure. "Ya?ll sure are getting your money's worth out of me today...
Finding good work is only getting harder for dropouts in the era of the knowledge-based economy and advanced manufacturing. Knauf Insulation is Shelbyville's largest employer, with more than 800 workers. Salaries start at $16.50 an hour, and the benefits at this German company are, well, positively European. In one of its factories along the Blue River, a row of mammoth 2400° furnaces spin the plant's secret recipe of sand, soda ash, borax and limestone into billions of billowy glass fibers, which will be cooled, packed and cut into battens of fiber-glass insulation. The workers running...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with TIME World Editor Romesh Ratnesar for a two-hour interview at Olmert?s home in Jerusalem. Here are excerpts from their discussion...