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...which prompted Harvard to institute a living wage—have formed a new group aimed at reinvigorating the labor movement on campus and are demanding a $20-per-hour living wage for all University janitors.In the midst of a contract renegotiation for Harvard’s janitors, the new Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) succeeds the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)—which successfully led the campaign that brought Harvard workers a guaranteed $10.25 hourly living wage and a number of other improvements in compensation. SLAM has an active membership of about 50 students, according to group...
...turbine. Julie and Bart Thiry of Kewaunee County, Wis., who live in a ranch house 800 ft. away from the nearest of five turbines, believe that the windmills are somehow responsible for the persistent headaches of their 8- and 9-year-old daughters. Bart, a school bus driver and janitor, says when he tried to sell the house, he couldn't get an offer...
ADRIEN BRODY PLAYED A CHARISMATIC SEIU ORGANIZER WHO WINS THE HEART OF A BEAUTIFUL LATINA JANITOR IN THE MOVIE BREAD AND ROSES. WAS THAT...
...dozen years ago when union leaders complained that public employee salaries for jobs traditionally held by women were unfairly low when compared with salaries for male-dominated jobs of roughly equal value. But what jobs are of equal value? Is a secretary, for example, worth as much as a janitor? More? And who is to say? Despite such formidable hurdles, state and union negotiators last week reached an agreement to provide 35,000 Washington public workers, most of them women holding clerical and nursing jobs, with pay raises collectively totaling $482 million between...
...plaintiffs in a 1982 lawsuit that led to last week's deal, the settlement "proved that the jobs traditionally held by women are worth as much as those traditionally held by men." Her $16,800 annual pay will go up by about $1,200, equal to what a janitor makes. Although such states as Minnesota and Wisconsin have also accept ed the comparable-worth concept, more than 20 others are still fighting lawsuits growing out of the controversial idea. LOBBIES Falwell Rechristens His Majority...