Word: laborer
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Just one week after the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) released a joint statement on casual labor, HUCTW has issued its own open letter on the subject, calling casual labor a "critical issue for this great institution...
...Some members of the Harvard community are being treated unfairly," said the letter, which urged people to report casual labor abuses to the union. "At least a small number of those are facing real economic hardship. We can not look the other way without perpetuating the problem of working poverty...
While the University has been accused of dragging its feet on labor issues in the past, Rudenstine has taken an active role in collecting data on casual employment. He took the unusual action of writing letters to the heads of the individual schools, asking that they comply with University guidelines by July...
...data-collecting initiative is not the only action the University is taking to try to assess its labor practices. In addition to pursuing the data-collecting initiative, the University also appointed an interfaculty task on employment practice in April, partially in response to the Living Wage Campaigns effort to lobby for a minimum $10 an hour wage for all Harvard employees...
Meanwhile, media giant Time Warner (parent company of TIME's publisher) is facing federal labor charges for allegedly denying benefits to hundreds of writers and artists by misclassifying them as temporary workers. Time Warner denies the charges and says the Labor Department is trying to make new law with the suit. Some longtime temps at another publisher, McGraw-Hill, just started pleading their case to management, joining the ranks of "contingent" techies, truckers, bellhops and professors who feel they're being shortchanged...