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...year and 4.5 percent by the contract’s final year, marking a $4.15 per hour increase over five years—double the outcome of the union’s 2001 negotiations. The University also said it would pay workers during the four-day winter recess, a perk already enjoyed by over 10,000 other University employees, and it created new benefits such as a provision allowing workers applying for citizenship to have five unpaid days of work without reprisal. The average salary of a dining hall employee is $31,000, according to a University press release...
...influenced by the monetary incentive. Some applicants had already been planning on applying to the prefect program. “I had been planning on being a prefect all along,” said Emily W. Cunningham ’09. The stipend is “a nice perk but that’s not why I’m doing it.” Still other applicants hypothesized that the stipend was a compensation for the extra commitment that the new position entails. Students will be expected to devote around 40 hours a semester to the role, according...
...however, many of those same working-class families have become addicted to the cheap labor. As a landscaper, Jeremy Samuelson has seen starting hourly wages for gardeners fall from $14 to $12 in the past decade, but he admits that he and his neighbors view cheap labor as a perk of living in the Hamptons. "People are making less, maybe, but now lots of people have house cleaners come once a week," he says. "And if you want your roof redone, you can just go to the corner, round up 20 guys, and they'll have it done...
Chen added that the Task Force offered this perk, because the seniors will graduate before being able to use the permanent...
...forget that it's also got a direct iPod connection. Snap in your iPod, and, like the Denon, you can navigate through all of your content. You can't play iPod videos through the system, and scrolling through songs can be sluggish, but iPod connectivity is a great additional perk to this powerhouse controller for home theater...