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After successfully helping Harvard janitors in their effort to gain a wage increase last November, Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) is active once again. The organization met yesterday for the first time this semester, armed with a new agenda and hoping for similar achievements...
...home country when doing business in another E.U. member state. It was this plan that made "the Polish plumber" the symbol of France's fears at the time of the referendum last year, and which brought 60,000 protesters onto the streets of Brussels last March. Labor unions and their supporters see this week's vote as critical, and plan massive demonstrations outside the Strasbourg Parliament. Monica Frassoni, an Italian M.E.P. who co-chairs the Greens and European Free Alliance group, has called the vote "the occasion for the E.U. to choose between a social or neoliberal orientation." Barroso...
...TIME he attended the 2001 meeting as well. Then an Abramoff client, the governor recalled asking the President a question about tax policy as part of a discussion among the small group after Bush had given a short speech on the subject. Fitial was seeking low-tax and relaxed labor regulations for the Northern Marianas at the time. Fitial said he used a photograph of himself with President Bush taken at the meeting in his campaign for governor...
...LABOR'S GREAT BLACK HOPE, AS ONE HEADLINE PUT IT? (Laughs.) If I'm Labor's Great Black Hope then we're in a lot of trouble. It's flattering, but it's a load of crap...
...worth remembering that of all the moments when she stood at history's hinge, one of the most important was when she was most human, most vulnerable, six months pregnant and wondering about the odds of her husband surviving a four month sentence of hard labor in a rough Georgia jail...