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...hungry and have to stop. The coalition’s hunger strike—which, according to participants, is distinct from a “death strike” in that none of them are prepared to die for their cause—is a response to some questionable labor practices by Harvard University that may have violated the Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP) that the University agreed to in 2001. The WBPP requires Harvard to employ workers through private contractors at comparable wages and benefits to those given to, “Harvard employees in the corresponding service...
...meeting will include Murphy and representatives of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), as well as another member of the Labor Relations office, according to Murphy...
...definitely getting through to them, but we haven’t won anything yet,” said Jamila R. Martin ’07, a hunger striker who presented a signed petition with the strikers’ demands yesterday afternoon to William Murphy, the director of labor and employee relations...
Most politicians, voters and analysts alike have all assumed that the 2008 Presidential campaign, like the midterm elections in 2006, would continue to be a referendum on Iraq and little else. But the growing call for comprehensive health care reform from representatives of major corporations, labor unions, America's governors, interest groups and the public has become so strong that it could actually give the war a run for its money...
...Mills, Qwest and, most notably Wal-Mart, which has become for some a symbol of the failure of American corporations to provide robust and affordable insurance to its employees. Major companies in the United States employ many of the nation's more than 40 million uninsured. There for big labor was Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union, a long-time champion of health care reform who has been criticized by some on the left for working in coalition with Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott on this effort. Pennsylvania's Democratic governor Ed Rendell and California...