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When Blair became prime minister in 1997, he sought to remedy Britain’s rusty socialist state, incurring the wrath of the powerful labor unions. He resisted pressure from the Trades Union Congress—whose members constitute a significant chunk of the Labour party—for repeal of anti-union laws. Union workers demanded that Blair lift prohibitions on secondary picketing, whereby people picket venues unrelated to their protest, such as the private homes of a company’s management; but Blair did not bend...
...This Monday, student representatives will meet with top administrators, including Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann, and Director of Labor and Employee Relations Bill Murphy, to further discuss the dispute over security guard wages, according to Aguilera, who is an inactive member of The Crimson’s editorial board...
Pressuring the University to intervene in stalled contract negotiations between subcontractor AlliedBarton and the security guards’ union, the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called a “hunger strike,” and organized daily rallies in Harvard Yard. After two participating students had been hospitalized, the leaders abruptly ended this ritualistic nine-day forced-starvation last Friday, citing that the University had consented to “two key student demands.” In a vain attempt to save face, SLAM greeted these so-called concessions—to audit AlliedBarton and subsequently to meet...
Sacrificing study time and much-needed caloric fuel, these strikers send the message that their scholarly well-being should come second to petty labor disputes. It is not a sign of audacity, but of ingratitude—to those, either dutiful parents or generous donors, who furnish their tuition...
...lionize work, but they don't condemn it either. Rock bands traditionally write about white-collar work as corrupt (the Beatles' Taxman) or for suckers (Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business). FOW write about it the way country and folk singers write about manual labor: as a fact of life. Besides, Schlesinger adds, the life of a nonsuperstar rock band is not that far removed from a lot of day jobs: "We spend most of our days at computers or traveling to and from a place of work, just like everybody else...