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...rights supporters, who are demanding a more targeted enforcement effort focused on employers that provide poor working conditions or substandard wages. "These seemingly arbitrary audits represent a version of the flawed thinking that went into the Bush Administration's work-site raids," wrote Service Employees International Union president Andy Stern in a Dec. 11 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. "Forcing the dismissal of such a tiny percentage of the hardworking men and women who work long days mopping floors, sewing our clothes or handling meat on a factory line does not make us any stronger as a nation...
...been as strong a voice for justice for SEIU workers like our janitors and homecare workers as we've ever had." - Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, reacting to Solis' nomination as Labor Secretary (Bloomberg...
...release last week of a human rights manifesto signed by hundreds of mainland scholars, lawyers and ex-officials has prompted a stern response from Chinese authorities who have jailed one signer and contacted dozens...
...having a longer break around the holidays,” she described herself as “an incorrigible procrastinator” who gets most of her work done during winter break. Though as a current senior she won’t be affected by the changes, Dana A. Stern ’09 also said that she liked Harvard’s current calendar. “I’d be under a lot more stress if I had to take finals right now,” she said. She also mentioned that in years when...
...measure, but newer, poorer countries like Poland - and big industrial powers like Germany - are doubtful. If the E.U. can't present a unified front at Brussels, it won't be able to do so in Poznan. "You can see the U.S. and China moving [on climate change]," said Nicholas Stern, a leading British climate economist, at Poznan. "We will destroy or undermine that movement if we go flaky in Europe...