Word: unionizers
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...lovers are livid over what they see as needless slaughter - a debate repeated almost everywhere Canada geese are being culled. In New York City, it didn't help when Bloomberg commented that gassing geese amounted to "letting them go to sleep with nice dreams." Pro-goose activists picketed at Union Square as well as at Bloomberg's posh Manhattan home. "Are we going to extinguish every single bird in the sky?" asks Edita Birnkrant, New York director of Friends of Animals...
...said that based on the most recent analyses conducted by the Union, which should include almost all of the cuts at the University's various schools and campuses, roughly 130 HUCTW workers had been slated for layoffs. But 35 of those layoffs have been avoided through the use of "creative solutions" proposed by the union, he said, such as by consolidating work done by temporary or casual employees into full-time jobs, placing eliminated workers in vacancies that had been created by the early retirement program, and asking for volunteers to be laid...
...noted that union negotiators still have "serious questions" about a handful of personnel cases and are continuing to engage with human resource officials about the cuts...
...Protesters at the time also questioned the legitimacy of the University's budget-cutting justifications and pointed to the millions of dollars paid to endowment managers as evidence of Harvard's alleged corporatization. The "No Layoffs Campaign," the coalition of union activists, staff, and students that has spearheaded the recent protests of layoffs on campus, took shape during the 2004 downsizing. And some of the chants used in recent rallies are recitations of those heard five years earlier...
...surface, the news that Yemenia Airways, whose jet crashed off the coast of the Comoros Islands on Tuesday, was not on the European Union's blacklist of airlines deemed lax on safety seems like a good argument for not only maintaining the blacklist, but extending it further...