Word: hungered
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...Eleven undergraduates began a nine-day hunger strike that ended last Friday after University administrators said they would soon publish an audit examining AlliedBarton’s compliance with Harvard’s Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. The policy requires outside contractors like AlliedBarton to pay their employees wages comparable to those received by in-house, unionized employees who perform similar jobs. Currently, in-house guards are paid 19 cents more than those contracted from AlliedBarton. But students are demanding that Harvard also mandate a “living wage” for the guards, which the SEIU sets...
...Time: 2:15 p.m. Subject: Re: Re: SLAM Hunger Strikers Unite hey de-rock, stay strong, those dbags will give out soon...bsides, the security guartds don’t even desrve what they are getting now, especially after that quincy incident. Am i right? am i rigght???!! i am alloiwed to say this because my uncle’s wife’s brother is in a security guard’s uonion and hes a lazy motherfucker...
...Time: 2:16 p.m. Subject: Re: Re: Re: SLAM Hunger Strikers Unite I am drunk right...
...Venezuelan prisons are notoriously violent, and news of riots is common in the local press. Last January, 16 inmates at the Uribana prison were hanged, killed and stabbed to death as rival gangs battled for control. Inmates often rebel or go on hunger strikes to protest long procedural delays that leave them locked up for years before they're given a sentence. The Venezuelan Prison Observatory, a Caracas-based NGO, says that the country's jail system has the worst homicide rate in Latin America, calculating that 22 of every 1,000 inmates died violently...
...currently in union negotiations with their employer, AlliedBarton. Then last week, seven UC members, acting under a request by UC President Ryan A. Peterson ’08, fasted for a day to show the UC’s supposed support of Stand for Security’s hunger strike.The UC overstepped its bounds in passing the Stand for Security Act and its president overstepped in presuming to organize a UC-sponsored fast in support of the issue. The latter action was particularly egregious in that it presumed, without benefit of a vote, that the UC supported Stand for Security?...