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...significant number of the night’s questions from members of the Student Labor Action Movement raised concerns that staff would bear the brunt of budget cuts in the form of mass layoffs, but both Smith and Hammonds rejected the notion that the upper echelons at Harvard were not shouldering a fair part of the burden...
Responding to fears that Harvard may reinstate its licensing contract with Russell Athletic—a sportswear company accused by labor groups of mistreating its workers—Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement brought a former garment worker to campus last Thursday in order to speak about the company’s violations of worker rights. Harvard ended its licensing agreement with Russell Athletics last December, as the company faced allegations that it shut down a Honduran factory because of workers’ attempts to unionize. Yet Rick Calixto, director of the Harvard University Trademark Program, wrote...
...Hugo Black, were often chosen for the Supreme Court. And there could be political reasons for picking her; though he won it quite handily, Michigan is still a swing state, and Granholm would please unions, one of several groups Obama will have to contend with on his left. Labor and some civil rights groups have long complained that some Clinton appointees, especially Justice Stephen Breyer, are too centrist on business or national security issues, and they will pressure Obama for a reliably liberal voice...
Israel's new government is a headache the Obama Administration doesn't need. Compared with Tzipi Livni, the woman he narrowly beat out, and even Ehud Olmert, the man he succeeds, incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuis cool toward a Palestinian state. And although it includes the moderate Labor Party, Netanyahu's ruling coalition teems with right-wing figures like Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose call for a loyalty oath directed at Israel's Arab citizens dismays even Israel's staunchest friends...
...older member states already wary about migrant labor, the recession has aggravated concerns over low-cost competition for jobs at a time when work is scarce. It shows in public opinion: a Eurobarometer survey last December found that 59% of people in the 12 newer members thought the E.U. was strengthened by enlargement, compared to just 44% in the 15 older members...