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Some employees of AlliedBarton, a security firm contracted by Harvard, are accusing their company of ignoring their calls for unionization. Frustrated by what they say is a lack of mechanisms to express grievances such as the withholding of wages and frequent shift changes, guards with Allied, the nation’s largest private security firm, have been trying to unionize for about a year. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 seeks to represent the AlliedBarton security guards. SEIU organizer Emerson Harris says there are about 250 to 300 Allied officers working at locations across the University. The union...
...1970s, there were three failed attempts at creating a women’s center. These attempts—centered on small rooms in Phillips Brooks House and the basement of Lehman Hall—failed because of a lack of funding and adequate space in an accessible and central location...
...certainly believe we accomplished that.” But Rebecca J. Hammer ’06, creator of the “Scene Magazine is Bullshit” facebook.com group, wrote in an e-mail that she took issue with the magazine’s lack of minority representation. “Pretty much everyone I know agrees that Scene Magazine is completely ludicrous in its skewed portrayal of the Harvard community,” Hammer wrote. “[V]ery few of the magazine’s models are minorities, and most of them are pictured wearing expensive...
...very American way to show your Irish roots,” he says. And although Harvard has talented Celtic musicians and an esteemed Celtic Languages and Literatures Department, it seems to lack a connection to popular Irish culture...
...current concern over the level of exhaustion and lack of new ideas in the West Wing isn't necessarily a laughing matter. Some well-known, and mostly anonymous, Republicans outside the White House are indeed agitating for new blood. One Republican official said that Bush needs "a heavyweight for outreach to the Hill" and is considering "some senior folks to get some rudders back," but added that "they won't go outside the family." And Sen. Norman Coleman (R-Minn.), usually considered close to the White House, went public this week with a view that has been whispered among Republican...