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...With regard to wages and benefits, we confirm the Committee’s principles that: Harvard has an obligation to be a good employer to fulfill its teaching and research missions. A good employer provides the wages, benefits, and other conditions of employment necessary to attract, retain, and motivate employees. Attaining these personnel-related outcomes requires compensation levels that significantly contribute to ensuring that Harvard's workers and their families enjoy at least a minimally decent standard of living. Harvard should aspire to be an exemplary employer for all its workers...
...With regard to the duty owed to all campus workers we reaffirm that: Although the University does not have equivalent direct obligations to the employees of contractors as it does to its own employees, the University's employment and contracting practices should reflect a humane concern for the well-being of all individuals who work at Harvard, regardless of whether they are directly-employed for Harvard or work on campus for a contractor...
...With regard to outsourcing we reaffirm that: Harvard should not use outsourcing to undermine its obligations to be a good employer and to bargain in good faith with its unionized employees. Outsourcing should not be used to lower wages and weaken the unions representing Harvard's employees. Similarly, the University should not inappropriately use casual employees in a manner inconsistent with its stated policies and to get around its collective bargaining obligations...
...culture," Martel charges. His campaign, intended to encourage Harper's Conservative government to make the arts and arts funding a higher priority, was launched with an essay in the national newspaper The Globe and Mail, has its own website, and has succeeded in attracting considerable media attention. Many Canadians regard government grants to arts institutions and artists as essential for protecting and nurturing Canadian culture in the midst of a constant flood of American influence. "I hope this is sort of a wake-up call to him," Martel told TIME. "If it instills a certain sense of shame because...
...refuses to regard De Jesus as silly: Tweed is impressed with its use of Spanish language media and even YouTube. But at the same time, he thinks it is nothing to be afraid of. Technically, Tweed notes, Crecienda en Gracia is a cult, a small group in some tension with the world at large and organized around a single magnetic leader. But it is not a cult as understood in the popular sense: Jim Jones or the Branch Davidians, who in deep self-imposed isolation, honed a violent apocalyptic element that eventually led to murder or suicide. Those at last...