Word: landã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reports secret and allows corporate board members to block actions. And despite its “reform” efforts, the FLA still lags in doing its job of responding to corporate violations of workers’ rights. From the New Era cap factory in Buffalo, N.Y., to Land??s End’s Primo factory in El Salvador, the WRC investigated charges of union-busting and discrimination and WRC-affiliated universities threatened to suspend their licenses if companies failed to comply with codes of conduct—and the companies ended up complying. The FLA, when...
...past year, Harvard has expressed a willingness to offer more. Harvard pays $4.3 million each year for its taxable land??sites where Harvard owns commercial businesses—and also makes a voluntary payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) of $1.7 million for the 189 acres of land it owns but uses for institutional, tax-exempt purposes...
Menino and Galvin cited uncertainty about Harvard’s intentions for the land??as well as concerns that any changes to the pike or rail yard could hurt the area’s economy—as their main reasons for opposing the deal...
...acre tract in Watertown sparked outrage from neighbors, University officials negotiated an deal that guarantees Watertown an annual payment of $3.8 million—no matter how much of the parcel Harvard takes off the tax rolls. In Boston, where Harvard holds more than nine times as much land??and is currently hammering out a deal to buy even more—the University pays only $1.6 million in PILOT. Much of Harvard’s holdings in Boston are still on the tax rolls, and Harvard has not yet negotiated a new deal with Boston city planners...
Summers said Allston planners this year learned “considerably” more about the two primary possibilities for the land??either creating an inter-school, interdisciplinary science campus in Allston, or moving professional schools that reside currently in Cambridge...