Word: unionizers
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Despite recent chatter that the University plans on instituting mass layoffs later this month—after the conclusion of Commencement activities—both a union leader at Harvard and a University spokesman say that negotiations about staff reductions remain in the early stages, making any discussions of a timeline premature. “The persistent rumors out there [are] based on the mythology that the University is one big coordinated entity and that some Harvard office is the keeper of the list of people to be laid off,” said Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard...
...Leaders in our union want very badly to be sure that we’re a strong, clear voice representing the things our members care about and dealing as partners with the administrative leaders of the University we care about,” he says. “There may be some difference in tactic, but I think we’re very much all rowing in the same direction and hoping for the same outcomes...
...society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers. This context is undeniably one of mass suffering, created largely by Israel but with the active complicity of the international community, especially the U.S. and European Union, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank...
Europeans often grumble that the European Union is run by anonymous apparatchiks. Surely they're not referring to Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy's last King, who is campaigning for this week's European Parliament elections. Or to Rickard Falkvinge, the founder of Sweden's Pirate Party, whose campaign rallying cry is for free file-sharing over the Internet. Or to Elena Basescu, a.k.a. Romania's Paris Hilton - the flashy It girl, who happens to be the daughter of the Romanian President, also wants to become...
...comedian of Cameroonian descent whose declared primary aim is "wiping out Zionism" in the world. The only pan-European party, with 600 affiliated candidates standing across the E.U., is the fiercely Euroskeptic Libertas, led by Irish millionaire Declan Ganley. (Read "How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union...