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...here also to represent the many other workers who are under threat of layoffs, so that they never have to go through what we are going through now,” said Sola, who is represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 615. Wayne M. Langley, director of SEIU’s higher education division, said that his organization represents 1,500 employees at Harvard...
...Other union members employed at Boston University and MIT also spoke at the meeting to argue that even in times of economic crisis, universities should be held to a higher standard when it comes to treatment of their low-wage employees...
Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, said that the City’s resolution was particularly timely since the window to accept the University’s early retirement package is closing and budget officials will likely be re-visiting their fiscal plans soon. HUCTW recently implemented a visibility campaign titled “Staff, Not Stuff” encouraging the University to focus on “slowing down and scaling back construction projects; reducing consulting, outside catering, and travel budgets; and investing in energy conservation and employee wellness,” rather...
...Which makes the European Union's March 20 decision to include Belarus in its "Eastern Partnership" initiative all the more surprising. The program foresees deeper political and economic ties between Brussels and six former Soviet states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Closer ties, Europe hopes, will promote democracy and better human rights. (See pictures of the 2006 riots in Minsk...
...Labor was the party of Israel's socialist founders, and at the convention there were glimpses of the old stalwarts: sun-creased kibbutzniks, leather-capped union men, teachers and a few men and women of dogged ideals. But they were outnumbered by party apparatchiks, with their cologne and insipid handshakes, few of whom appeared ready to give up their cushy government posts and influence. Says Shelly Yachimovich, a hard-hitting ex-radio journalist who is now one of Labor's rising stars: "A strong motive was clinging to power and the good life. Some Labor people believe their genetic code...