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...chance that China's GDP growth will pick up as the year goes on, it is because consumer consumption within the country has not fallen apart. But, one of the issues that the government mentioned as a hurdle to growth was labor unrest and unemployment. Growing joblessness is almost certain to undercut the ability of the middle class to pull China out of its slowdown...
...small contingent of students from Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement unfurled a protest banner and politely requested that the University avoid layoffs during an intimate lunch event with University President Drew G. Faust and seven Eliot residents. SLAM, a student organization that advocates on behalf of Harvard staff, interrupted Faust’s noontime meal with a warm welcome and round of applause. They then presented her with an open letter and an oversized cotton T-shirt. In the letter—addressed to the President and the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body?...
...attendance but did not speak. Hammonds is currently scheduled to attend a UC meeting on May 3, according to Kia J. McLeod ’10, UC vice-president. Smith has also been invited to that meeting. A contingent of students representing Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement were also in attendance at the meeting, accompanied by a large sign that read, “Greed is the new Crimson.org. No layoffs,” to which Smith commented, “Nice banner.” After the event Flores praised Smith for his willingness to answer...
...Franco's dictatorship, but Spain's progress was much helped by the country's early accession to the European Union, with all the real and symbolic benefits that flow from it. The U.S. is never going to offer Mexico the sort of benefits - the free movement of labor, aid with infrastructure development and a common external trade policy - that E.U. member states enjoy. And Mexico, with an always prickly sense of its sovereignty, would never submit to the supranational supervision of its policies to which E.U. nations agree...
...Faust blinks in surprise as a rowdy gang from SLAM -- the student labor action movement-- interrupts the intimate meal to hand Faust an open letter petition against layoffs and a conciliatory t-shirt Faust will never wear...