Word: labors
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...military officials from Baghdad to the Pentagon have made it clear that by Labor Day Washington should have a good handle on whether or not the surge plan championed by Army General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is working. The 30,000 extra troops, largely dedicated to Baghdad, are designed to secure the capital and let the political process take root. While the Guard deployment announced Monday is not part of the surge, by the time those soldiers board airplanes bound for Iraq it should be apparent whether or not the surge is working. Older...
...Fogg Museum. Many of the staff and services now located in Littauer will move to the first floor of Lamont Library, which will undergo renovation this summer to accommodate the change. Littauer’s holdings, which contain materials on economics and government as well as many historical labor papers, will mostly be placed in the off-campus Harvard Depository.Littauer, which until now held much of Harvard’s social science collection, consists of a sparsely populated reading room and two dark, low-ceilinged levels of subterranean stacks. It boasts a rusty dumbwaiter and an old-fashioned vault originally...
Alyssa Aguilera ’08-’09, a member of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which organized the event with the Coalition for Respect and Equality for Workers, said she participated in the rally to help build a stronger connection between Harvard students and workers...
Over 80 Harvard students, workers, and community members participated in a labor rally in front of the Holyoke Center yesterday afternoon in support of workers’ rights, highlighting the upcoming contract negotiation of Harvard’s recently unionized security guards that will be the focus of labor efforts this spring...
...privilege to lend a hand to the workers who are also a part of the Harvard community,” said Aguilera, who added that the rally was intended to coincide with the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a nationwide student-led labor week...