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Besides increased bargaining rights. Rondeau said a Harvard union could improve the workers current pension plan and work for pay equity. Eighty-two percent of Harvard's roughly 4,000 clerical and technical workers are women according to Rondeau...
...Banks, pension funds and other big institutional investors were also active during last week's rally. While many banks were closed on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King's birthday, the number of block trades of 10,000 or more shares climbed to some 15,000 for the week, an 18.2% rise as compared with the previous week...
Local 34 members also won increased fringe benefits, including their first dental plan and a beefed-up pension program...
More typical is Illinois Republican Congressman John Erlenborn, an expert in pension-plan legislation who just retired from Congress after serving ten terms. He now expects to make three times his former salary as a consultant to companies affected by the laws he once wrote. "My expertise is worth the most here," says Erlenborn. "I never did intend to be in Congress for the balance of my life...
...close of the war, William returned to England, where he lived on a pension from the Crown. Randall ends his sad, striking account by noting that father and son had only one more tepid meeting, in 1785, although Benjamin lived five years more. The collision, Randall theorizes, was not merely temperamental but genetic. Philosophically, Benjamin the pragmatist and William the stiff-necked legalist could never meet on common ground. More important, both men shared "the single-minded Franklin drive to prevail no matter what the cost." The cost was prohibitive. Perhaps it is just as well that Benjamin...