Word: labors
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...QUEST FOR CHEAP LABOR...
While we appreciate the University's attempts to control costs in an era of exponentially exploding tuition prices, we wonder about the ramifications of current trends in the job market. As the power and influence of unions wane due to the competition with cheap labor at home and abroad, many workers are forced to accept increasingly less generous contracts. The new contract for Local 254, Harvard's union of custodial workers, is a case in point: older workers are offered more attractive early retirement plans to make room for new employees who will be paid far less...
Such hikes are related to "the nature of labor intensive production processes," according to Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz...
...Buell says that as Faculty members focus their work in an effort to carve out an academic niche, they are becoming more cognizant of the pit-falls that come a tremendous academic division of labor...
With almost 5,000 Harvard employees associated with the University's eight unions, labor organizers and contract negotiators have their hands full...