Word: slammingly
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Benjamin Weintraub’s February 17th article (“SLAM Takes Aim at Coke Contract,” news) noted that Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) is planning to target Coca-Cola in an effort to secure for Coca-Cola workers the right to organize...
...more novel suggestions that I’ve received, but I’m open to every possibility.” Though Summers’ tennis skills still don’t rise above the amateur level, last night bore a closer resemblance to a Grand Slam event. Harvard University Police Department provided security, checking Harvard identification at the door—and a group of five Crimson editors and former Crimson executives seated in the third row greeted Summers with the letters L-A-R-R-Y painted on their chests in red paint. When asked...
Only one of three Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) three contracts with the Coca-Cola Company will expire soon enough for Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) to target this semester. Of the three, Harvard’s contract with Coke’s subsidiary juice company Odwalla expires in July 2006, HUDS communications coordinator Jami Snyder told The Crimson yesterday. The other two, for bottled beverages and for dining hall fountain soda, expire respectively in December of 2006 and 2009, Snyder wrote in an e-mail. Coke has been mired in controversy due to allegations...
...having better information about its constituent’s desires would be a bad thing. Without such information the UC flails in the dark. To wit, the most frustrating part of last semester’s UC resolution to support the Student Labor Action Movement’s (SLAM) living-wage campaign, was that it presumed to speak for a student body that it had yet to consult. In that vein, we certainly support UC initiatives to better ascertain the pulse of the student body. But we do so with significant caveats. The UC should tread cautiously to avoid several...
...meeting yesterday, the organizers decided that the HUDS contract renegotiation cannot be SLAM’s top priority this semester. Because the negotiations will fall late in the semester, Usmani said, SLAM would have trouble galvanizing the support that would be necessary for a major effort...