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...leaflet went on to make several allegations against the company's actions, such as illegal behavior of security forces over the course of the strike. By Cardinal Health's own admission (see its statements in the Nov. 7 Crimson), this was in fact the case. That they have replaced the security company does not atone for previous violations or abuses. Nor has the new security company been free from suspicion of foul play...
Despite the words of this statement, Harvard students were denied their right to leaflet at the Harvard Business School (HBS) last Thursday. The students were raising awareness about the involvement of McPherson Professor of Business Administration Regina E. Herzlinger in a labor dispute involving a Teamsters union strike against Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical distribution company. Herzlinger is a member of the Board of Directors of the company and is thus publicly responsible for its actions...
...basic purpose of an academic institution is to allow for the free distribution of ideas, as the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities makes clear. When asked if the Business School had a policy on leafleting, an assistant dean replied that there was an "unspoken and unwritten agreement" that it was not encouraged. That does not qualify as a legitimate policy by any stretch of the imagination; as students, we had every right to leaflet on University property and they had no business preventing us from doing...
...Workers are treated poorly and without respect and this is unfair," wrote Miranda E. Worthen '01 on a leaflet given to all of the PSLM members before the march...
LONDON: McDonald's libel case against two leaflet-distributing vegetarians ended in victory today after a judge ruled their criticism of the burger giant amounted to slander. The lawsuit, the longest ever waged in an English court, was directed against two members of the left-wing group London Greenpeace (not related to Greenpeace International) who handed out anti-McDonald's pamphlets outside its restaurants in Britain. McDonald's said the pamphlets, which accuse the burger giant of pushing unhealthy food and mistreating its employees, were false and harmful to its reputation. The defendants, Dave Morris and Helen Steel, fought...