Word: labors
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Dean of the Social Sciences David Cutler '87. an economist, agreed. “I doubt it’s causal; it could be a selection issue. Students who binge drink in college could be more popular; popularity carries over to the labor market,” Cutler said...
...with many races this year, illegal immigration is shaping up to be a key issue in the 11th district, where many agricultural businesses, including Christmas trees, rely on immigrant labor. Taylor's first radio commercial has painted Shuler as being soft on illegal immigration, and the Republican Party has backed it up with illegal immigration billboards scattered around Asheville and western North Carolina. For his part, Shuler claims to be as tough on illegal immigration as Taylor...
...read the interview with human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce [Sept. 18]. Finally, someone has the courage and insight to tell it like it is. It's both astonishing and highly depressing to see the lack of popular reaction in Western democracies to the antiterrorism-globalization steamroller. Labor protections and human rights that our forefathers fought for and, in untold cases, died for are being tossed away as a result of the hype and hysteria being propagated by governments and Big Business. The media are also guilty. What we give away in moments of anguish and fright will be more than...
Organizers accuse the company of hiring “irresponsible” contractors—two of which are under investigation by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board for violating workers’ rights—according to Charlie W. Noss, one of the event’s organizers...
Eight Harvard students participated in a two-day “solidarity” fast of their own, trekking out to Burlington Friday night for a post-fast rally. Jamila R. Martin ’07, a member of the Student Labor Action Movement who fasted last week, said SEIU 615 has been trying to organize janitors in the city for a while, but the anti-union sentiment in the area has made it very difficult...