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...general counsel of the Coca-Cola Company, which he left last year after a dispute with the company’s CEO. During Patrick’s tenure, the company dealt with a lawsuit alleging that the company held responsibility for human rights violations committed in a Colombian labor dispute...
April is a good month for protest. Roughly four years before the Progressive Puker opened his mouth, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spent 21 days “occupying” Mass. Hall to compel Harvard to pay its workers a living wage. The criticism of PSLM’s act sounded a lot like the criticism of the Puker. The Crimson, which supported a living wage, argued that the occupation was “unjustified and inappropriate.” A majority of students supported a living wage, but less than a third supported the occupation. The University...
...pocket costs for cars and computers are understated. Last year the average suggested sticker price for a passenger car rose $467, reports the Department of Labor. But because of improved brake, air-bag and theft-protection technology, which made cars more valuable, an increase of only $386 was built into the CPI in an effort to measure "constant quality," says Patrick Jackman, senior economist at Labor...
Yale and Columbia officials have said they will uphold a July 2004 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, which stated that teaching assistants at private universities are not to be considered employees under the terms of the National Labor Relations...
...social and economic systems have also evolved to accommodate a range of temperatures. Some areas, for example, are too hot in the summer for extended outdoor daytime labor, and because of this people have either adjusted their daily activity cycles accordingly or introduced cooling systems in the work and living place. But a heat wave in Europe in the summer of 2003 demonstrated just how close our current infrastructure and social systems are to critical thresholds for human habitation. There were 21,000 heat-related deaths in five European nations, and subsequent studies have found that most of the deceased...