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Friday, Oct. 7. “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.” Barbara Ehrenreich, who lived the life of a low-wage worker in “Nickel and Dimed,” discusses her newest book, an exploration of the white-collar world of career coaching and networking events. 7 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...
SLAM evolved from the now-defunct Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), an activist organization that staged a three week sit-in of Mass. Hall in 2002 and demanded wage increases and benefits for the University’s service employees. The event drew national headlines and prompted the University to review its labor policies...
Last night, SLAM called on Harvard to give its janitors $20 per hour with benefits, an amount that amounts, SLAM pamphlets say, to a living wage in the Boston area. It also urged the University to increase the opportunities for full-time work, to honor the workers’ right to unionize, and to cease outsourcing service work immediately...
...already exceeding the living wage ordinances for both Boston and Cambridge,” Murphy said...
...weekly working hours creep up and paid vacation days come down. Almost one-third of the German workforce is now temporary or part-time, granting companies a generous measure of flexibility. Nationwide labor contracts have long been sacred, stubbornly ignoring local economic conditions. But in practice, more and more wage deals are being struck on the shop floor, where labor and management pay attention to the company's balance sheet. And corporate profits are soaring...