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Reacting to the fact that only one of the 14 Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential and vice presidential candidates is a woman, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) hosted a discussion last night on why women are underrepresented and what can be done. “It was a discussion about women’s political involvement...and what are the obstacles or barriers to women participating in campus politics on the same level as men,” Dara F. Goodman ‘07, an RUS co-president, said. The issue of the dearth of female representation has been...
...notes in his native Spanish before another day of working to organize Smithfield Foods meatpacking workers. Vargas, originally from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
...Latino immigrant workers at Smithfield, the world's largest hog-processing plant, are not union members. But a month ago nearly 1,000 of them walked off the job for two days, protesting hundreds of recent firings in a crackdown on undocumented workers. The company quickly capitulated and agreed to rehire the workers, and made other concessions, like meeting with the workers' representatives and agreeing that no one would be disciplined for the walkout...
...Angeles and Sacramento, hotel workers have recently won contracts by taking to the streets and going on strike. In Houston, Latino immigrant janitors went on strike in late October for a month, blocking downtown traffic until they won an agreement between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and five major cleaning companies for higher wages, medical benefits, paid vacation and more hours. "We're building a much broader movement," says Stephen Lerner, director of the SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign. "The union writes, talks and acts in the language and culture of the people we're organizing...
...workers who had been notified felt like death-row inmates waiting for their turn," says Eduardo Pe?a, the lead Smithfield union organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union. "So, people said, 'This is it.'" The union says it did not organize the job walkoff last month, which brought the plant - which slaughters more than 30,000 hogs a day - to a standstill. Pittman downplayed the impact the walkout had on the plant saying it reduced their productively by about 25%. And while the workers have won a stay, the company says it is only temporary unless they...