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...Indonesia have grown rapidly?in Jakarta, by nearly 40% this year alone?and now are higher than in more developed Thailand, relative to each country's per capita income. Unions are now pushing for ill-conceived labor laws that call for employers to pay workers whenever they go on strike?effectively forcing manufacturers to underwrite crippling work stoppages at their own factories...
Within two minutes of the first strike, Harvard scored a second penalty corner goal. This time, Pell finished the job herself, deflecting a Kate McDavitt shot into the net. The quick doubling of the lead dampened New Hampshire’s spirits...
About 2,000 Boston janitors represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254 enter the fourth week of their strike today after negotiations with cleaning contractors failed last month...
Several thousand Boston janitors have been on strike for the past three weeks, marching through the streets of Boston every night demanding justice. These janitors belong to the same union as the janitors who clean Harvard’s buildings and who won a better contract last winter after a protracted struggle with the Harvard administration. Many of them are employed by the same companies that employ Harvard’s outsourced janitors. Earning only $39 a night, with no health care and no sick days, they face the same abhorrent conditions Harvard workers have faced in the past...
...main demand of the strike is health care. Well over 70 percent of the 10,000 janitors covered under the current contract are ineligible for health care because the cleaning companies do not provide health care to part-time workers. The creation of many part-time jobs instead of full-time jobs is a seemingly conscious strategy on the part of the cleaning companies to avoid paying health care benefits. These companies try to shift the responsibility for health care onto another company, where the worker presumably works full-time. But many janitors cannot find full-time jobs...