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...culminating event of the Student Labor Action Movement’s (SLAM) “A Week for Workers” drew more than 75 students, employees, and community members to a teach-in on workers’ unionization rights last night...
...mysterious sexually transmitted disease known as “the Bug.” The origins of the disease are never revealed, but that omission is unimportant amidst the grotesque developments and explicit violence presented in perfect detail. As Burns has remarked, “It was extremely fucking labor-intensive...
Screenwriter Shane Black, the guy behind a bunch of unremarkable mid-90s action movies (such as “Lethal Weapon”) most recently directs and writes “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” a smart-assed labor of love, both a hokey pulp murder-mystery and satire of same, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. The film’s most dubious aspect, though, is a bizarre half-baked subplot involving child sexual abuse. In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, Kilmer and Black—either from jet-lag or sheer fatigue...
...causing more of the worst type of hurricane. Only a few skeptics, industrialists and political opportunists remain unconvinced. But the taxpayers are the ones who have to finance ill-advised and heedless policy decisions, and then pay more to clean up after weather-related disasters. Clarence Madhosingh London Labor Pains "Will Europe Ever Work?," on Europeans' shifting attitudes to labor and unemployment [Oct. 3], suggested that workers can expect to work harder and longer for no additional pay. But what would employees get without extra money? Food at the supermarket? Gas at the pumps? Part of their mortgage? When corporations...
Harvard and Georgetown students convened last night to discuss future union empowerment and the achievement of a living wage on campus at a meeting organized by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). The meeting is one of four SLAM events this week, including a Thursday roundtable on workers’ rights. After a three year campaign and nine-day hunger strike, Georgetown students won a living wage for workers last spring—successfully demanding full-time contract workers be paid a minimum of $13 an hour by fiscal year 2006. Diane Foglizzo, a recent Georgetown graduate and participant...