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...first contract 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...
...improve their working benefits. Sponsored by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the gathered support will be used next month to help union leaders negotiate a more favorable contract for dining hall employees. Their current contract expires in June. Dining hall workers are currently not guaranteed work over summer recess, nor are they allowed to collect unemployment benefits for those three months, said Adams House cook Bill Nicolson. They are also not paid during Christmas vacation, intercession, and spring break. As a result, dining hall workers are often forced to use their 10 paid vacation days to lessen the impact...
...discussing the creation of an outreach committee without reaching out to the student body on the subject.The “services” component of the proposed OSC is an equal embodiment of futility. The UC (specifically, the CLC) has struggled in the past in providing airport shuttles during recess and cardboard boxes during move-out. To continue to leave services in the hands of a few inexperienced representatives with little business acumen is tantamount to reckless abandonment of student welfare. We continue to encourage the UC to look for ways to outsource these services to student groups designed...
...Senate Republican strategist said the best case for getting a bill ready for Bush would be before the August congressional recess. "But that requires a lot of things to fall in place, including continued and accelerating presidential and Administration involvement as well as an evolution of position not just amongst House leaders but a fair number of rank and file," the strategist said...
...Sizer says.She adds that the extra time and openness of a homeschooled setting lets homeschooled students shape their education and explore their own interests.“You’re not going on a school bus. You’re not going out to recess...There’s just more time to do what really might matter,” Sizer says.For Winston, this extra time allowed her to create independent classes in architectural history, in addition to working for an architectural firm in high school.“That’s how I got interested...