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While this may seem overly cynical about the state of labor relations at Harvard, it is obvious from looking at the track record of our administration that workers’ rights are simply not their priority—and the Harvard security officers’ labor struggle is a clear example of this...
...standards for subcontractors, like AlliedBarton, which are responsible for our own Harvard community members’ livelihoods. AlliedBarton can boast that it is the nation’s largest U.S.-owned security firm and brings in sizable profits, but the company’s track record in terms of labor policies is shameful...
...Rudd's early success is due to his strategic prowess and his party's obedience. Being a Howard critic was the first phase of Doing a Kevin. As ALP leader, Rudd has tried to exude a mainly positive message, and he's been able to control the agenda. Labor has settled on many of the issues that suit it and the times. It has rolled out bite-sized policy chunks on its major themes of education, child care, industrial relations, federalism and business regulation. The impasse between the Commonwealth and states is neatly captured by Rudd as a "blame game...
...stump, Rudd's key words are fairness, flexibility and prosperity. Like former Labor leader Mark Latham, he embodies the point where Labor's social project meets its "economic escalator." Go back to Rudd's maiden speech. It's the education revolution, comrade. The other great wave of sentiment that Labor is riding is shaped more by fear than hope. For Ruddites, it's climate change time. Rudd's approach on global warming is to flay Howard for being a skeptic; any government action taken, Labor claims, is insincere, inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade...
...close down the Kevin Rudd show. People who watch these players for a living are beginning to think that the P.M., caught up in his party's travails, has not yet got Rudd's measure. The government's attempt to tar him for his association with Labor felon Brian Burke had the opposite effect. He's been embarrassed by a gas-guzzling car and a solar-free home, and no doubt the government and a more searching media will turn up more trouble: perhaps he runs the air-conditioning hard in steamy Brisbane. Rudd is not a saint...