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...took advantage of the shift was Pedro Tinoco, president of Banco Latino and an old friend of Perez's. The President made the extraordinary move of naming him head of the central bank, even as Tinoco remained Banco Latino's largest shareholder. Soon millions of dollars in government funds were deposited in Banco Latino, which used them to help launch a major expansion. By 1993, the year in which Tinoco died of cancer, Banco Latino had blossomed from the country's eighth largest bank into its second largest...
...instead of resting, Pedro does work for Prospect Cleaners, also on campus. The cleaners want him at Harvard because he knows the campus and because, except for a couple of times when his kids were sick, he has never missed a day of work. Prospect and Unicco's workers are also both in the same union...
With the same union representing Pedro in both jobs, he thought he'd get overtime pay for the two extra days he works each week. But he was wrong. Pedro has come to realize that he's been taken in by Local...
Manning strains credulity, though, when he sayshe "knows nothing" about employees like Pedro whoare working long hours with no overtime pay. Thelabor relations director is a smart man who rarelymisses a trick. And if he didn't know aboutsomething, it's likely that Conway would tell him.Several sources insist the Harvard labor relationsofficial and the 254 business agent are close...
...Pedro understands that the union is screwinghim, but he also realizes that there is no one towhom he can complain...