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...Automotive Research. Unions representing Delphi workers have described the bankrupt company's latest offer--cutting wages from an average $27 an hour to $10.50 for production staff--as "insulting," and U.A.W. chief Ron Gettelfinger has described Delphi boss Robert Miller as a "rogue." The U.A.W. last week filed a protest in bankruptcy court over a Delphi compensation plan that would award top execs up to $500 million to stay on the job. GM, caught in the middle of the dispute, is likely to try to broker a deal...
YOUR OPPONENT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF, FORMER SOCCER STAR GEORGE WEAH, HAS VOWED TO KEEP FIGHTING THE ELECTION RESULTS IN COURT. HOW WILL YOU PACIFY HIS ANGRY YOUNG SUPPORTERS, WHO HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS SEVERAL TIMES THIS MONTH TO PROTEST THE ALLEGED VOTING FRAUD? I do not think these allegations can be substantiated. I will sit down with [his supporters] and assure them that it is in all of our interests to move forward. I am young at heart, and I think we can convince them to come on board...
...Inaction comes at a steep price. The environment is one of the leading causes of China's rising social unrest. Last year the government recorded 74,000 protests. This year, international and domestic media have kept busy reporting on numerous environmental protests, several of which have spiraled out of control, resulting in beatings, arrests, even deaths. In wealthy Zhejiang Province, for example, thousands of people mobilized throughout the spring and summer to protest chemical, pharmaceutical and battery factories that were polluting their land and water. In one case in April, up to 30,000 people living in and around...
Furthermore, the editorial makes incorrect assumptions about the University’s authorization of the protest exercised at the Finkelstein event, comparing it to the unsanctioned and repulsive protest that took place at a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruitment event last spring. Spontaneous vocal protests are in no way comparable to self-induced vomiting. The CIA disrupters completely shut down last year’s event, rendering recruiters unable to continue presenting employment opportunities to Harvard students seeking jobs; Finkelstein was able to continue his diatribe for nearly three full hours. During this time, HLS Dean of Students Ellen Cosgrove...
...issue at hand is an empirical one: this vocal protest was allowed and legitimate. Reports stating otherwise or equating last week’s Finkelstein protest with last year’s CIA protest are either irresponsibly ignorant of the facts or shamefully malicious...