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...burn through its cash reserves at a deadly clip. "A strike could push them over the edge," says Steven Szakaly, an economist with the Center for Automotive Research. Unions representing Delphi workers have described the bankrupt company's latest offer--cutting wages from an average $27 an hour to $10.50 for production staff--as "insulting," and U.A.W. chief Ron Gettelfinger has described Delphi boss Robert Miller as a "rogue." The U.A.W. last week filed a protest in bankruptcy court over a Delphi compensation plan that would award top execs up to $500 million to stay on the job. GM, caught...
Stuffing a building into a bag is no easy task. Nor is erecting a concrete structure in less than an hour. But Peter Brewin and William Crawford have figured out how to do both. The two British engineers, both 26, dreamed up the Concrete Canvas--a sack of cement-impregnated fabric that morphs into an emergency shelter with the addition of two simple ingredients: water and air. Brewin says the hut can be deployed by a single untrained person in about 40 minutes. Before being inflated, the bag containing the construction material weighs about 500 lbs. The builder fills...
...earlier this month as the Invention of the Year. At a website called "I Love Hwang Woo Suk," decorated with a Korean flag and pictures of Hwang with Snuppy, many members have posted messages saying they would love to donate eggs. The founder of the site staged a 10-hour, one-man demonstration in front off MBC's offices Thursday, holding a candle as he stood in a cardboard box on which was written: "MBC must kneel down and apologize for dragging down Dr. Hwang...
...It’s important not to have Houses facing cars,” she said. The plans had already been presented to residents when Harvard planners released an interim report last June, and there were few questions on Monday. Indeed, the scheduled one-and-a-half- hour meeting ended 10 minutes early. Bob Van Meter, the executive director of the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation, said in an interview yesterday that the meeting was the “clearest presentation I’ve seen so far” of Harvard’s plans for its new campus...
...union representing 340 Harvard janitors ratified a new six-year contract with the University on Friday that will gradually raise the starting wage for custodial workers to $18.50 per hour. After the two parties reached a tentative agreement late last Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 put the proposed deal to a vote among the janitors throughout the day Thursday. The janitors overwhelmingly approved the contract, with fewer than 10 workers voting against it, according to SEIU Local 615 spokeswoman Courtney Snegroff. “People are very satisfied,” she said. Harvard spokesman...