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...years, graduate students at colleges across the country who have said they are overworked and underpaid have advocated for the right to organize...
Ramirez also discussed what students can do for the cause of farmworkers’ rights. He urged students to vote against corporations that abused farm labor, specifically NORPAC, an Oregon cooperative that sells fruits and vegetables harvested by underpaid farm workers—PCUN’s boycott of NORPAC originated in 1992 and has had several success in recent years...
...general skepticism with air travel has, I think, already been discussed by those more insightful than I; they have identified the weaknesses in our nation’s airport security system and detailed specific flaws in the system from a skimpy air marshal program to heavily underpaid security workers. What I haven’t heard anyone discuss is the general uneasiness I feel with doing what everyone says we should be doing, namely moving...
...Ever wonder why the Diana crash was the coming-out party of the Internet as a news medium? It's because all the Web writers were underpaid company shlubs on three-day weekends if they were lucky - remember, this was before the bubble - and they were the first ones back to their desks when the news hit. And for the rest of the press, the message was clear: Leave town at your peril. We can fill...
...campaign uneasily straddles two Britains. One is the sunny, upbeat land shown in Labour's emotive TV broadcasts: unemployment, inflation and interest rates all at 25-year lows, real incomes and primary-school test scores rising, crime falling. But there is another Britain of shabby hospitals, underpaid teachers, overcrowded schools and 7 million adults who are functionally illiterate. The world's fourth-largest economy may be Cool Britannia, but it is also the sick man of Europe, trailing behind its Continental neighbors in many measures of quality of life...