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...their race and ethnicity. In recent weeks, students have rallied around them, forming a group to protest alleged racial discrimination against Harvard employees. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert Mitchell said Monday afternoon that the employees would not be laid off. “A committee of labor and management representatives are looking into this entire layoff process,” he said. He said although he could not comment on the employees’ charges, the University takes allegations of discrimination and racism “very seriously.” “FAS Human Resources will...
...Sison, I'm relieved to say, is still alive. But the slaughter of reporters, leftists, lawyers, labor leaders, priests, students and human-rights workers in the Philippines continues with a fury that recalls the darkest days of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. Nearly 800 such people have been killed since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took power in 2001, reports the local human-rights group Karapatan, while Amnesty International recorded 51 cases of what it calls "political killings" in the first six months of this year, compared with 66 in all of 2005. When it comes to journalists?46 have been killed...
...CHARGED. Peter Hartz, 65, former Volkswagen personnel director; with 44 counts of breach in trust in connection with a corruption scandal at Europe's largest automaker; in Braunschweig, Germany. State prosecutors allege that Hartz oversaw illegal payments of $2.4 million made without Volkswagen's knowledge to labor representative Klaus Volkert, who resigned soon after the investigation began last June. Hartz, who quit last July, denies wrongdoing but accepts the perks were in his "area of supervision." If convicted, he could face five years in jail...
...hiring management, and equal access to hiring and promotion opportunities. The participants also laid out plans to hold multiple teach-ins on Nov. 30 and a public demonstration near MCB labs on Divinity Ave. on Dec. 7. They discussed strategies to gain support from campus organizations, such as Student Labor Action Movement and the Latino student groups. One of the meeting’s organizers, Jose G. Olivarez ’10, who was wearing a button that said “Stand for Security!”—a reference he said to security guard unionization, which...
...Luce offers some remedies for India's pervasive poverty and uneven development: fix labor laws, improve rural infrastructure and social services, and preserve and strengthen democratic institutions. India also must stop the spread of AIDS, he says, and protect its environment, which is decaying fast as the economy heats up. This is all perfectly sensible, but not all of Luce's arguments are rock solid. For example, he laments the stupidity of labeling all of India's diverse Muslim groups as fundamentalists, yet he brushes off the threat from Islamic fanaticism too casually. Its reach may still be miniscule within...