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Mayer also highlighted the fact that the funds allocated to HUDS by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in recent years have not kept pace with increased costs. In addition, FAS set HUDS’s budget for this year prior to the completion of labor union negotiations and spikes in fuel costs...
...Museum Guards Union. But the University gradually outsourced its guards because of financial losses, a process completed in 2004. To fill the void, Harvard subcontracted with Security Services Incorporated—now AlliedBarton—which did not permit its Harvard employees to unionize.Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) has been pressuring the University and AlliedBarton to accept unionization for over two years, according to Adaner Usmani ’08, a SLAM member.“We don’t have any clout in Allied, we’re not shareholders...
...Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. Factories contracted by Nike employ 160,000 people, and recently increased their annual production to 70 million pairs of shoes, making Vietnam the world's second-largest source of Nike sneakers. (China is the largest.) The attraction for investors is obvious: Vietnam's labor force is educated, young and growing, while wages are even lower than in China's coastal cities. And the repressive political climate under the communists' monopoly on power creates a certain social stability, and the new government led by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has vowed to continue opening...
...good sense of timing is the primary mark of a good doctor. How long can the fever stay this high before we hospitalize? Should we use a few more days of antibiotics? When do you tell the woman in labor to come in to the hospital? Tell the aging man it's time for his knee replacement? The family it's time for a hospice? Scarcely any time is spent on questions like these in a medical education and if I were to say, "ok, I'll fix that" I don't know where I would begin, how I would...
...major emphasis of the new project is on educating the public about the dangers of preterm labor--and reminding physicians that a vacation, for instance, isn't a good-enough reason to schedule an early delivery. The assumption: if mothers knew the real risks of prematurity, they would be less likely to request induced labor or a C-section and would stick out the pregnancy to term...