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...that has left a noticeable chill in his relationship with Blanco--New Orleanians began to have second thoughts about Nagin. For all his reforms, residents wondered whether their long-awaited antipolitician could realize critical projects like transforming the city's abysmal schools or breaking its dependence on the low-wage tourism industry. In a city suffering some of the nation's highest poverty and crime rates, African Americans questioned whether their concerns fit on Nagin's pro-business agenda. One of New Orleans' leading black ministers, Bishop Paul Morton, even called Nagin "a white man in black skin...
...inclusion in our community into a pay rate far above what is fair, they will set a dangerous precedent for other Harvard employees and likely lower Harvard hiring in the future. Last Monday, members of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) rallied to demand a $20 per hour living wage for Harvard’s janitors. The janitors, who are in the midst of renegotiating their contract with Harvard, are currently paid $13.50 per hour. This salary represents an over $2 per hour increase (adjusted for inflation) from the living wage terms Harvard agreed to in 2001 when SLAM?...
...Living-Wage Campaign” at Harvard is like a Boston winter: you know it’s going to strike, but wonder only when and how hard. And last weekend—much like the Boston winter—it struck. And surely it won’t be long before throngs of students and Cambridge activists will march, chant, and protest outside the Holyoke Center and around Massachusetts Hall, believing that they are fighting an important battle in a larger war to achieve higher wages for Harvard’s lowest-paid workers.The campaign’s flaw...
...remaining members of the group that spearheaded the 2001 sit-in—which prompted Harvard to institute a living wage—have formed a new group aimed at reinvigorating the labor movement on campus and are demanding a $20-per-hour living wage for all University janitors.In the midst of a contract renegotiation for Harvard’s janitors, the new Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) succeeds the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)—which successfully led the campaign that brought Harvard workers a guaranteed $10.25 hourly living wage and a number of other improvements...
Taking on social security first, Peterson pointed to three possible solutions: borrowing money, decreasing benefits, and increasing taxes. He ultimately concluded that the best way to address its effect on the budget deficit is by cutting benefits by reforming the wage-indexing program, which is used to calculate the amount of benefits distributed...