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...members say they interpret HRE's stance as a traditional attempt at union-busting. And they find little comfort in Zeckhauser's suggestion that it tenants become dissatisfied with HRE's treatment, they can be "adequately protected by local and state laws administered by a wide variety of government agencies," including the Cambridge Rent Control Board Turk and other tenants point out that because of HRE's financial resources and its ability to hire attorneys, there is no balance in court or rent board fights between Harvard and tenants...
While some observers interpret HRE's general attitude toward HTU its treatment of tenant activists as a sign that the union may have the long-term potential of swaying Harvard administrators to greater regard for tenant relations, others note that as long as the University refuses to recognize the union there will be isolated incidents such as the Erickson affair and protracted disputes such as the Ware St. episode. The beginning of direct negotiations between Harvard and the union could produce immediate positive results for both parties, the tenants contend...
...tampering with COLAS. This opposition is basically driven not by economic calculation but by plain fear of a poverty-ridden old age-and this fear is an understandably powerful motivation. Like many other retired couples, Evan Francis, 75, and his wife Mildred, 77, of Los Angeles, wrongly interpret any talk of lower future benefits as a threat to the $582 a month they receive from Social Security. Says Evan: "If the Government cuts it off, there would be a revolution in the streets...
...task for philosophers, Marx said, is not to interpret the world, but to change it. As Hickok never pretends to philosophy, there can be no faulting her unwillingness to call for change. What a reader finds in her reporting, instead, might prove more enduring. With her sensitivity, her thirst for detail, and above all, her sincerity, Lorena Hickok succeeded in finding what radical social theorists have merely postulated to exist--that among us which is human. In taking to the home' of America, and then, reporting what she felt, Lorena Hickok avoided the flaw that undermined other 1930's writers...
...intent of the ordinance was unclear, and allowed a Cambridge woman who moved into her apartment after the 1979 date to buy her unit as a condo He state the original law did not specify the 1979 date and added that the rent control board could not legally interpret the council's intent in denying removal permits to post 1979 tenants...