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...Somalia has been a prisoner of bloody anarchy, a void filled by vicious and impressively armed chaos as rival warlords, clans and subclans, and Islamists prosecuted a series of civil wars - over power, over historic animosity and over competing visions of Islam. Last summer, the Islamic Courts Union (i.c.u.) - an alliance of clerics and clan leaders - took Mogadishu and forced the warlords out. In the last two weeks, the T.F.G., backed by thousands of troops from neighboring Ethiopia, several key warlords and, tacitly, the U.S. State Department, has taken most of the country in a lightning advance, cornering the Islamists...
Once the agreement was reached, all guards had the option of signing an authorization card stating that they wanted to be part of the union and wanted to bargain for wages through the union, according to Lauren Jacobs, the director of organizing at SEIU Local 615. Jacobs said that well over 50 percent of the guards signed the cards...
Harvard’s security guards have earned union recognition after a “strong majority” of the guards indicated they were in favor of unionization...
AlliedBarton—the contractor that employs Harvard’s guards—and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reached an agreement permitting the guards to organize in November...
Harvard once employed its security guards directly, and those guards enjoyed membership in the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guards Union. But the University gradually outsourced its guards because of financial losses, a process completed in 2004. To fill the void, Harvard subcontracted with Security Services Incorporated—now AlliedBarton—which did not permit its Harvard employees to unionize...