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...decide if the workers will keep their jobs in the long term. “Regarding claims of ethnic discrimination, we take such accusations very seriously,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We have asked the Harvard University Office of Labor Relations to investigate these claims and they are in the process of doing so as quickly and judiciously as possible.” The procession paused at multiple points for protestors to take turns at the megaphone to give speeches, which were translated into Spanish by Diana C. Montoya-Fontalvo...
...race to Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Hau Lung-bin by about 13%. But Taipei, a KMT stronghold, was a race the DPP was expected to lose. In Kaohsiung, on the other hand, the DPP has held the mayoral seat for the past eight years. DPP candidate Chen Chu, an ex-labor minister and former political prisoner, won by 1,114 votes, just .14% of the total 767,868 ballots cast. She had trailed in opinion polls in the weeks before the election and acknowledged that the corruption allegations involving the President were an obstacle. KMT candidate Huang Jun-ying, a former...
...unjustified: the carnival tradition helped fire up the French revolutionary crowds as well as uprisings of slaves and colonized peoples from the Caribbean to West Africa. When the Industrial Revolution took hold, holidays were eliminated in favor of the new work ethic: people were increasingly expected to labor all day, six days a week, and spend the Sabbath in sedentary prayer. A few traditional- style festivities survived--Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Carnaval in Rio and carnival in Cologne. But by and large, sometime in the past 300 years, the music stopped...
Students, University employees, and union representatives met last night for a community forum that aimed “to address racism in the Harvard workplace.” The Harvard Coalition for Respect and Equality for Workers, the Student Labor Action Movement, Fuerza Latina, and the Latino Men’s Collective gathered in Emerson Hall for the event...
...other foreign countries are doing. Tutoring is best in small doses: not too much to overwhelm children, but enough so that they can develop genuine appreciation and enjoyment of math. Students are going to need a lot of support from parents because the distinction between Kumon and mindless repeated labor can be very gray at times...