Word: union
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...believe that Harvard provides a very comprehensive benefits package, which is part of the union bargaining agreement that is approved by the workers,” says Crista Martin, Director for Marketing and Communications for HUDS, when asked about the issue of paid vacation...
...response to their struggling members, the union is more active than ever, making sure its members have access to food stamps and other services. But the ultimate goal is for more sustainable, long-term change; in short, the HUDS staff hopes that the University administration will re-assess the logistics of the new calendar. “Harvard should really give some money to hold us over until we come back after J-Term,” suggests Larry E. Houston, a shop steward at Annenberg. But Childs believes that the solution lies elsewhere...
...event, co-sponsored by the Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, attracted union members from across the Boston area...
Karen Jeanne O’Donnell, a union electrician who has worked at projects at the Harvard Business School and Adams House, said that she was disappointed that Trumka did not address the role of women workers, but she was “hopeful and energized” after hearing his plans to reach out across age and socioeconomic lines...
...State of the Union address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his famous “Four Freedoms” speech. He spoke of a world in which Pharaoh and his armies no longer existed. He envisioned that in the not so distant future we would attain a world whose citizens enjoyed “freedom from want”—a world in which a mother would never have to choose between taking her child to the doctor and feeding her family for a week; a world in which a father would never have to sacrifice his daughter?...