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...guards receive $12.68 per hour as their starting wage, according to figures released by the Stand for Security Coalition, a group advocating for the guards. The Service Employees International Union 615, the union that represents the guards, is asking for a minimum starting wage of $15 per hour, according to those same figures...
...would dispute that our security officers’ wages, which force employees to work full-time seven days per week or to choose between buying food and medicine for their family, are inhumane. In 2002, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies declared that Harvard should not use outsourcing as a means to allow the veritable abuse of its workers, and Harvard codified this sentiment in its Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. Yet Harvard has been outsourcing its security officers since 1992, allowing the University to lower wages and shirk its committment to basic worker welfare...
...didn’t want to underestimate them—we wanted to stick to above 36 [strokes per minute],” two-seat Winter Mead said. “Within 20 strokes, we had about four seats on them, and we kept pushing and finished with a pretty solid...
...seat arena in three hours, generating $19 million, a Nevada boxing record; the fight had its own HBO reality series; ringside seats were fetching $20,000; and, while the final numbers won't be known until mid-week, the fight was set to top all pay-per-view records, making De La Hoya at least $23.3 million and Mayweather at least $10 million...
...Developing nations make the point that they're not responsible for the vast majority of carbon dioxide hanging around in the atmosphere, which was put there by Western countries during their own development over the past 150 years. They argue that their own per-capita emissions rates are still far lower than those of Western nations, and that therefore climate change isn't their responsibility. True, but wrong. Future global warming will hinge on how we deal with future carbon emissions, most of which will come from developing Asia. The gravity of climate change politics has moved east, to China...