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...going on strike on Thursday. "It's a black day for Opel," says Klaus Franz, leader of the company's works council. "The strikes will start in Germany, and then they'll spread across Europe on Friday." Thousands of workers gathered at the carmaker's plant in Rüsselsheim to vent their anger at the aborted sale. Roland Koch, governor of the state of Hesse, told the workers that GM couldn't be trusted and that he would fight to save every German job. The strike coincided with GM's announcement that it would shed 10,000 positions...
...Staff writer Evan T. R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...
After a four hour wait, the Cambridge Public School Committee election results were to be announced. The three candidates present, Patricia M. Nolan ’80, Alan R. Steinert, Jr. ’58. and Alice L. Turkel stood with the rest of the Cantabrigian present to hear the results...
...then-Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam penned a sharply worded letter to the UC, ending the four-year-old party grant program, which had distributed $1750 per week to fund private student events. Pilbeam accused the UC of condoning parties that centered around alcohol and turning a blind eye to underage drinking...
Last year, members of the UC began developing a new program to meet the “need” left by the abrupt termination of the old party grants, according to UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10. “People really feel the absence of the party fund,” she said.The Social Grants Act was approved in April and included many of the same restrictions carried over to the current proposal in order to appease many of the administration’s concerns, former UC Finance Committee Chair Sundeep S. Iyer...