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...that workers are as much a part of our community as faculty and administrators,” she said. “We hope that the Council will join students in putting pressure on Harvard to stop laying off workers and keep our community together.” Bedardo Sola, a janitor who was recently reinstated at the University, said through his translator that he now understands what it is like to be enslaved after having taken up the workload of three workers. Counsellor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, the second sponsor of the resolution, motioned to vote...

Author: By Danella H. Debel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Officials Decry Harvard Staff Cuts | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...Bedardo Sola, a former subcontracted janitor who worked at Harvard, said in Spanish through a translator at the meeting that he was laid off on Mar. 13 from a job he had held for five years. His unemployment has left him without health insurance, he said, and as a result, surgery to correct his wife’s blindness will now cost...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: City Council Calls on Harvard To Keep Low-Wage Workers | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...here also to represent the many other workers who are under threat of layoffs, so that they never have to go through what we are going through now,” said Sola, who is represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 615. Wayne M. Langley, director of SEIU’s higher education division, said that his organization represents 1,500 employees at Harvard...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: City Council Calls on Harvard To Keep Low-Wage Workers | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

Harvard Square so special, or go to the homogenized malls where much of the world does a lot of shopping.” Jillson also said she noticed a trend of independent stores opening in the past year to replace national chains. Crema Café, for instance, replaced Jasmine Sola, and Passport Boutique replaced Caché. Three businesses—Topaz, Looks, and Cambridge Eye Doctors—that have opened recently in the Square moved from upper Mass. Ave locations. “What this tells me is that property owners and business managers here are really willing...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Businesses Push Shopping Locally | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...accounts into state coffers. The announcement sent Argentina's stock market plummeting, while the rush of depositors to convert their savings into dollars resulted in a 7% devaluation of the peso. The financial earthquake caused by the initiative has put the Argentine economy "in intensive care," says columnist Morales Sola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Woes for Argentina's 'New Evita' | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

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