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...Aligning our schedules would help alleviate these problems.As the Committee on Calendar Reform found several years ago, calendar change cannot be achieved without sacrifice. Reading period may need to be shortened a bit, and we will likely have to kiss late-September starts goodbye in favor of a post-Labor Day start date. But let go we will; these were traditions that weren’t meant to last, and we should no longer justify them with an irrelevant nostalgia.In the end, the benefits of a calendar switch far outweigh the costs. With a longer and more relaxed winter vacation...
...That's why Edwards has spent the past two years actively courting the liberal netroots, even hiring Dean's old blogger, and wooing top union bosses. Edwards' attacks on Wal-Mart, which has discouraged its workers from forming unions, and his calls for universal health care are beloved by labor leaders, who could give Edwards a major lift in the early primaries in Iowa and Nevada, where their organizations are influential in Democratic politics...
...highly critical of France. Are things really that bad? There's a corporate France that's doing very well. There's a labor France that's not doing well, and there's a political France that is on another planet. We have a Communist Party that continues to create problems, even if it isn't very representative. We have a Socialist Party that still dreams of a socialist economy. We have unions that represent just 8% of the workers but who who scare all governments. And we have a right that doesn't dare assume its role. It's surreal...
Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) made unionization for the guards one of its primary focuses this year, according to Adaner Usmani ’08, a SLAM member...
...calling for the immediate withdrawal of at least 40,000 troops. He wanted to take incremental steps on health care then, but is working on a universal plan now. He's become even more populist in his rhetoric; at an event in Pittsburgh in August for the labor-backed group Wake Up Wal-Mart, he railed against the retailer for not offering its employees better wages or health insurance. While in 2004 he described the problems of poverty, now he has a massive, expensive agenda to get Americans out of poverty, which would include creating one million federally funded jobs...