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Hausammann arrives on the coattails of a University-wide labor policy change that has led to new expectations from labor unions and Harvard administrators...
...She’s inheriting a very good labor situation,” said University Director of Labor Relations Bill Murphy...
...Until Mark Latham came along. The Labor Party leader's pitch for government includes a pledge to redirect money going to Australia's wealthiest schools toward more needy ones, with Catholic schools set to receive the bulk of it. To many people, this makes Latham a hero. Others are appalled. "The prospect of sectarian tension," says Bill Daniels, executive director of the Independent Schools Council of Australia, "is something this country just doesn't need...
...schools policy announcement on Sept. 14, those notoriously hard markers - talkback callers - have accused him of inciting class warfare. But are his proposals really so radical? If Henry Parkes' contribution was a missile, Latham's is a firecracker. There are some 2,700 non-government schools in Australia. Under Labor, 67 would have their federal grants reduced over five years, while another 111 would have their grants frozen. The money saved - about $A520 million - would be redistributed to independent schools that charge relatively low fees. Also pledging $A1.9 billion for the public system over the same period, Latham said: "Labor...
...lack of support but did not discuss it because it was inconvenient to her thesis. After all, it is hard to argue that we should fear a bill to “give the President of the United States the power to demand two years of potentially unpaid labor in any capacity—including military service” when: (a) the bill is offered by the president’s political enemies; (b) a vast majority of Republicans and Democrats oppose the bill; and (c) the bill is widely acknowledged in the press as dead...