Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...union representing Harvard's security guards, parking attendants and Fogg Museum guards yesterday lodged a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that the University violated federal labor laws and is negotiating in bad faith...
...their newborns by having a C-section. If women are also taking anti-AIDS drugs, their risk is reduced even more--87%. Part of the reason may be that babies are less exposed to HIV during a caesarean--which, though bloody, is quick--than during the many hours of labor that can accompany a vaginal delivery...
...expect a workload like this: for one undergraduate literature course this semester, Razza gives lectures, runs a discussion section, grades papers and exams, and holds office hours in a basement room where 40 other teaching assistants share 29 desks and one computer. For 30 hours a week of such labor, she earns about $1,400 a month--which doesn't even cover her rent, tuition, books and car payments. "It's not really part of my education," she says of her teaching tasks, which have prevented her from finishing her dissertation. "It's still work...
...their union cards from the United Auto Workers. Similar unionization votes are scheduled at seven other U.C. campuses later this year. University administrators had threatened not to negotiate with the union but backed down after the vote. The UCLA vote was the latest in a string of labor victories on campus. Nationwide, graduate students have organized at close to 20 universities and colleges...
...less than half will land full-time "tenure track" jobs. Increasingly, colleges farm out teaching to part-time instructors, who earn skimpy salaries and rarely get benefits. So, many graduate students figure, they need to haggle for all they can get now--and they think Big Labor (including the U.A.W. and the American Federation of Teachers) can deliver at the bargaining table...