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Harvard can choose to require AlliedBarton to pay security guards more fairly and prevent arbitrary dismissals or punitive scheduling decisions. It could easily enforce the Wage and Benefit Parity Policy and strengthen it to prevent other harmful labor practices. Instead, it chooses to deny responsibility for campus workers by hiring a separate management company to do its dirty work. SEIU’s only opportunity to organize outsourced workers is to place accountability on those who hire the subcontractors, as this campaign is doing and as they have done in Justice for Janitors campaigns around the country...
...Still, in a country where being called Anglo-Saxon is often an insult, Sarkozy is openly admiring of the ability of Britain and the U.S. to create millions of jobs, and is promising to deregulate France's labor market in an effort to end what he calls the nation's "immobility." In a pre-election debate on May 2, he singled out the U.K., along with Ireland, Sweden and Denmark, lauding them for their success in combatting unemployment. That sort of attitude drew flak, with opponents painting him as an American-style neoconservative, but that didn't stop him winning...
Still, in a country where being called Anglo-Saxon is often an insult, Sarkozy is openly admiring of the ability of Britain and the U.S. to create jobs. He promises to deregulate France's labor market and lower the nearly 9% unemployment rate, one of the highest in Europe and almost double that of Britain's. During a May 2 debate with his Socialist opponent, Ségolène Royal, he lauded Britain--along with Ireland, Sweden and Denmark--for its success in combatting unemployment. That sort of attitude drew flak during the campaign--opponents tried to paint...
...pension should be based not on how long you have been alive but on how much longer you are expected to live. By his calculations, counting back from the expected end of life rather than forward from birth would lead to reasonably delayed benefits that would boost the labor force 10% by 2050 and GDP as much as 10% a year. If those who retire volunteer at something, it bumps GDP an additional...
...meeting, scheduled for tomorrow morning, will include Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann, Vice President of Government, Community, and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone, Director of Labor and Employee Relations Bill Murphy, a faculty member, and three students, said Austin S. Guest ’07, a spokesman for the Stand for Security coalition...