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According to a preliminary report released this spring by the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a labor-based independent watchdog group, the Primo factory—operated in El Salvador by Lands’ End Inc.—“has systematically discriminated in its hiring process against workers perceived to be trade unionists.” This “blacklisting,” the WRC said, is illegal under both Salvadorean and international...
...Iraq was unnecessary. True, the dictator has gone, but the people have paid a terrible price. Few Iraqis feel "liberated." Can we be blamed for feeling uneasy about the future? It's hard to ignore the U.S.-wrought trail of wreckage and carnage extending from Nicaragua to El Salvador to Chile to Vietnam to Cambodia--and now to Iraq. GERALD W. HANKINS Canmore, Alta...
It’s Thursday morning, 10:10 a.m., and nine students—each from a different country—are copying down vocabulary words furiously from a newspaper article on the war in Iraq. Celia C. Chacon, a woman from El Salvador, works as a janitor in the Semitic Museum, and Viena I. Erazo, from Honduras, works for Restaurant Associates at the Business School. Before heading off to their jobs at the University, they sit around a conference table above Planet Aid on JFK Street and work on their English for free, courtesy of Harvard University. They?...
...have a large population of workers with no exposure to school in their native country,” says Kolenik, who founded the Bridge program. “We’re talking about countries like El Salvador. You’ve got all these mountain towns with no schools...For many students, we start by holding up an object like a pen and asking them what it is. Some of the students are 40 years old and learning this information for the first time...
...SALVADOR...