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...British Columbia Attorney General Wally Oppal ended speculation that the government intended to co-exist with Bountiful by ordering the arrest of settlement spiritual leaders Blackmore, 52, and James Oler, 44, under charges of polygamy. According to press accounts, Blackmore is alleged to have as many as 26 wives and 108 children. (According to tradition, the first wife is listed as a legal marriage, and the others are "celestial wives" recognized only within their faith.) The upcoming trial will test polygamy laws in the face of the Canadian Charter of Rights and its broad protection of the exercise of religion...
...leaders of Bountiful insist that the reason for their arrests is not their wives but their faith. "This is not about polygamy," declared Winston Blackmore in a press statement on Thursday after he and Oler had been conditionally released from jail. "Tens of thousands of polygamists among many different cultures are hiding in plain sight all across Canada. They are known by their neighbors, policemen, legislators and media just as we are ... But they are not fundamentalist Mormons. To us, this is about religious persecution...
...instead of buffing floors on the other side of Boston last Friday, Moura had an appointment with his local union representative, Courtney Snegroff, and James LaBua, deputy director of Harvard’s Office of Labor and Employee Relations (OLER), which oversees all labor policy implementation and contract negotiations...
After a round of in-house guard layoffs two years ago resulted in worker and student protests, James A. LaBua, Deputy Director of the Office of Labor and Employee Relations (OLER), which oversees all labor policy implementation and contract negotiations, said that a mix of in-house guards and contracted guards wasn’t optimal for the security of the University...
Bill Murphy, Director of OLER, recently echoed LaBua’s belief that the move to Allied represented more security for the Harvard community. “Given the changes in responsibilities and focus since community policing took effect, the Allied Security model reflects improvements in applicant screening, and includes CORI checks, and increased training,” Murphy writes in an e-mail...