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...mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job in December to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66? an hour (instead of the 34? they had been receiving). Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city hall. The next day their employer, a Hong Kong firm called Max Infosystems, raised salaries but cut meal subsidies by the same amount, according to one of the strike's organizers. China's detractors still have powerful weapons at their disposal...
Tanaka and 12 local demonstrators were arrested last June in a protest against proposed state budget cuts outside the Massachusetts State House...
Kidd is no stranger to controversy. In 1995, when then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 appointed Kidd assistant dean for public service, leaders of student volunteer groups—who favored a rival candidate for the post—staged a protest that drew a crowd of over 700. And in her first year on the job, she frequently clashed with student leaders of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA...
Seven members of the Class of 1969 wrote Summers at the end of last year to protest the unusually high wages, and one of the signers, William A. Strauss ’69, said yesterday that other graduates had since followed suit...
...story. The BBC's chairman, its director-general and Gilligan resigned, though they took shots at Hutton's report and comfort from a wide variety of commentators who called it a whitewash. The acting BBC management announced a review of editorial controls and tried to calm employees who staged protest strikes...