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...unscientific survey of the moviegoing public, conducted by people who wish to make money, parents facing a three-day weekend were found to be a particularly vulnerable subset. During the early weeks of summer, say, Fourth of July weekend, they are at their weakest. Labor Day is only a distant promise. It's hot. Typically, at least one member of the family is feeling fragile in regard to fireworks. Movies are a refuge, and this subset - one of considerable size - will take their children to see anything...
Harvard's outsourced security guards unionized in 2006 after two years of protracted negotiations. After the agreement was reached between AlliedBarton and SEIU, students, labor activists, and workers embarked on a campaign to secure a contract for the guards that included fair wages, steady, full-time work, a safe and sanitary workplace, and fair work procedures...
...negotiations stagnated, prompting students to take more drastic actions to support the workers and Union. Groups such as the Student Labor Action Movement and the Stand for Security Coalition organized extensive protests and even a nine-day hunger strike, which resulted in the hospitalization of two undergraduates, to encourage the University to intervene in the contract negotiations. The activism prompted University human resource officials to seek an expedited audit of AlliedBarton to ensure that the subcontractor met the University's hiring and wage parity requirements for in-house and outsourced workers...
...more than twice as much as in 1965. Roughly 60% of male high school students told researchers they planned to cut their work hours when they become dads; the recession rushes the trend, as men get laid off at three times the rate of women and the division of labor gets a sudden jolt...
...inquiry into an alien culture and the nature of nurture. Thus I learned from Apple things I never knew from reading What to Expect When You're Expecting, like the Stalinist roots of Lamaze and the fact that in the 1st century Pliny the Elder recommended that women in labor drink goose semen mixed with water to ease the process along...