Word: laboral
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...recognize that it has an obligation to its neighbors and surrounding communities. As a recognized nonprofit, Harvard receives substantial tax breaks in return for providing educational services and stimulating local economies. Layoffs may allow Harvard to breathe easy, but in doing so they are simply shifting the burden of labor costs onto the cities of Boston and Cambridge and local taxpayers. Because Harvard is one of the largest employers in Massachusetts, any substantial layoffs at Harvard will dramatically affect neighboring communities—those that don’t have the most expensive money managers and billions of dollars...
...Today, workers are holding protests outside the offices of Labor Relations in Holyoke Center at 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Janitors, library workers, security guards, and dining-hall staff will come together to make visible the very real consequences of these potential layoffs. Hundreds of working people are refusing to be reduced to percentage points on Harvard’s budget charts and are fighting to keep the jobs on which they and their families depend...
Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-09, a Crimson editorial writer, is a government concentrator in Dudley House. She is a member of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM...
Middle-class Americans are invited to submit questions and ideas through the task force's website, but while tickets for the Philadelphia meeting were distributed to labor and environmental groups, the task force did not accept questions from the audience. "If Biden and his team want to go into this [middle-class issue]," says Daniel Morris, communications director of the Drum Major Institute, a think tank that analyzes middle-class policy issues, "they're going to need to talk to real members of the middle class. There's no substitute for immediate intimate interaction...
...visit. Livni's centrist Kadima Party posted a narrow win in Feb. 10 parliamentary elections but has been unable to stitch together a governing coalition. Now the hawkish Netanyahu is trying his luck, turning to the right wing and orthodox religious parties and possibly a breakaway faction of the Labor Party. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...