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...have opened themselves up with substantial success. You might think the prosperity of some Indians and Chinese would be something to celebrate. But no. Whether because it is thought that all the rich world's jobs will be "outsourced" to India and China or because people believe that cheap labor in India and China will drive down wages everywhere else, the rise of the two Asian giants is now viewed as a threat as much as it is a triumph. Globalization has been turned around from something that makes poor people poorer to a phenomenon that makes rich people poor...
...India and China will quickly educate 300 million of their citizens to acquire sophisticated and complex skills," write Bhagwati and his colleagues, "borders on the ludicrous. The educational sectors in those countries face enormous difficulties." This rings true. For the past few months, there have been reports of skilled-labor shortages in the most economically advanced areas of China. Second, free traders argue that even if China and India become advanced economies almost overnight, they will look just like Germany and Japan. And nobody--well, nobody you would trust--argues that trade between rich economies doesn't benefit everyone...
Director of Employee and Labor Relations William Murphy, who participated in the negotiations on Wednesday, called the agreement a “good outcome for everyone...
Senior Harvard labor officials met Wednesday with a representative from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615—which charged that Harvard had violated a seniority clause in its contract with the union—and agreed to return the four women to the jobs that they had held with...
William Murphy, Harvard’s director of labor and employee relations, is facilitating negotiations between Harvard and SEIU...