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Today, the Harvard janitors’ contract expires. The treatment, wages, and benefits that janitors currently receive are unjustifiable; with a new contract, Harvard has the opportunity to show workers, students, and the larger public that it cares about the living conditions of these important members of our community.Currently, employees at the bottom of Harvard’s income ladder work for meager wages. A minority of them receive full-time employment at Harvard. Many must work two or three jobs to support themselves and their families. Harvard’s wages compare poorly to those of its local peer...
With the contract between Harvard’s janitors and the University set to expire at midnight tonight, the two sides remain at odds over potential wage hikes.During yesterday’s negotiations, Harvard put forward a six-year agreement that would gradually increase janitors’ starting wage to $17 per hour, according to union officials.But Harvard’s proposal falls short of the union’s last demand, for a raise in the starting wage to $19.50 over five years. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615, represents most of Harvard’s janitors. Under...
...between meetings with Labor lawmakers and his predecessor as party leader, Shimon Peres, he told TIME that he plans to quit Sharon's government immediately and force elections as early as next March. He hopes to draw voters with a social agenda that includes a higher minimum wage and government-subsidized pensions. He hopes the program will attract poorer people who have dismissed Labor as a party for the rich, particularly Arab voters and Jews whose origins, like Peretz's own, lie in the Arab world. Officials in Sharon's Likud Party and others who have built recent electoral success...
...call the Harvard community to arms. Harvard: you’ve stood up against war, you’ve stood up against opponents of the living wage, and you’ve stood up to grade inflation. Now is the time to stand up to acorns...
...fantasy, is his refusal to embrace a vision of the world as a Manichaean struggle between Good and Evil. Tolkien's work has enormous imaginative force, but you have to go elsewhere for moral complexity. Martin's wars are multifaceted and ambiguous, as are the men and women who wage them and the gods who watch them and chortle, and somehow that makes them mean more. A Feast for Crows isn't pretty elves against gnarly orcs. It's men and women slugging it out in the muck, for money and power and lust and love...