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...University’s security guards, however, have been without a union since 2004, when Harvard finalized the outsourcing of their jobs to AlliedBarton, a contractor of security services. AlliedBarton had previously prohibited its Harvard employees from unionizing, but in the face of protests and pressure from workers and labor advocates, the firm reversed its stance in November, granting the guards permission to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The deal was cemented last month when a majority of the guards voted in favor of unionization. We applaud this turn of events and believe unionization will provide Harvard?...
...home front, as Cambridge students confront a hike in tuition fees brought about by Labor government policies, Richard has worked to increase financial aid and make Cambridge more accessible to lower income families...
...talk of Denver is how the 2008 Democratic Convention, which would be a perfect showcase for this newly left-leaning region, may be thwarted by a local labor leader so passionate he once picketed a Bruce Springsteen concert. That concert was being held in the city's Pepsi Center, and Jim Taylor, head of Local No. 7 International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, thought that the Boss shouldn't perform in an arena that refused to sanction unionized workers. The Pepsi Center still doesn't have union labor - and it is the proposed site of the Democratic Convention...
...Taylor and Local No. 7 are the only labor holdouts to a deal. Says Willhite: "Mr. Taylor let me know from early on that he had some issues about the Pepsi Center. After Denver's labor federation voted to support the convention, we thought that took care of that, and all the unions would be supportive. But as we got down to the final parts of the package, one of them being a labor agreement signed by the unions that would be involved in the build-out and actual conduct of the convention, Jim said he couldn't sign...
...several years economists have longed for a “Goldilocks” economy, an economy that is neither too hot nor too cold but instead just right. This nice turn of phrase was, according to William Safire, first notably used by former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich to describe an imagined period of moderate growth and low inflation...