Word: labors
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...violation of the University's policy on free speech, a security firm recently suppressed the distribution of critical leaflets on the campus of the Harvard Business School (HBS). On Nov. 6, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) attempted to pass out leaflets condemning the membership of HBS professor Regina E. Herzlinger on the board of Cardinal Health, a company alleged to mistreat its workers and replace strikers with scabs...
Seldom are labor conflicts settled at the breakfast table, but the lives and welfare of many workers depend on the grapes we choose or do not choose to eat. Harvard's decision to serve grapes again in undergraduate dining halls in spite of the United Farm Workers (UFW) boycott is important...
...fact that the UFW has largely abandoned the grape boycott in favor of other crusades--and the fact that many farmworkers have decided they are better off without membership in it--may well be another red herring. What matters here is not labor politics, but the health and safety of the workers and of consumers. If these remain at risk, the boycott remains justified...
...Sources: Labor Department, Report of the Secretary of Defense to the President and Congress, USA Today/Gallup Poll, bureau reports
...TIME's Edward Barnes expects the continuing federal grand jury investigation to have a major impact on the Democratic Party. "This basically gives the election to Hoffa," he says. "And with Carey's fall, his coalition with (AFL-CIO head) John Sweeney, which was so lucrative for pro-labor Democrats (and so successful in dragging down fast-track), is basically finished. As for Hoffa, so far he's playing it very close to the vest." Somewhere, Dick Gephardt is sweating...