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...past four years.Congressionally-mandated restrictions force many of the nation’s most qualified workers out of the U.S. market before they even enter it. By allowing these restrictions to continue, the U.S. is not only harming these newly-minted graduates, but is robbing the U.S. skilled labor market of many of its most willing and able young professionals. With elections on the horizon, we hope that a lame duck Congress will act on legislation that will expand on the U.S.’s H1-B visa program.The number of individuals granted H-1B status is capped...
After weeks of community outrage, Saintely Paul, the Harvard janitor allegedly fired for fainting on the job, will return to work, according to labor leaders. On Wednesday, the local branch of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the University, and Paul reached a verbal agreement allowing Paul to regain his job, as well as full back pay for time missed and coverage of medical expenses related to his condition, the union said. The agreement comes after several rallies staged on Paul’s behalf by students, union members, and local and state politicians. Shortly after the last rally...
...DIED. Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, billionaire German industrialist; in Carinthia, Austria. Flick-whose father was jailed by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg for using slave labor in munitions and other factories-became famous for an early-1980s scandal over huge donations made to German political parties by managers at the family's conglomerate. The Flick Affair, as it became known, forever linked his name with the issue of shady influences in politics...
billionaire German industrialist; in Carinthia, Austria. Flick--whose father was jailed by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg for using slave labor in munitions and other factories--became famous for an early-1980s scandal over huge donations made to German political parties by managers at the family's conglomerate. The Flick Affair, as it became known, forever linked his name with the issue of shady influences in politics...
...editors. The idea to produce a Harvard Disorientation Guide has been floating around for a number of years, said guide editor Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, who is also a Crimson editor. The ball started rolling again this summer at a meeting of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), according to Usmani. Gould-Wartofsky explained that “all the individuals who were involved were either in SLAM or sort of allies.” “[SLAM] was sort of a nexus for people to do this project, but it wasn?...