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Aside from talking about these budget cut layoffs, HUCTW will also be negotiating wage increases, housing assistance and educational and training benefits with the University for a new three-year agreement...
...event’s main organizers. Also present were representatives from the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the group which took over Mass. Hall—the site of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ office—in 2001 as part of the living wage campaign...
Mahan pointed to the living wage sit-in as an example of successful activism, saying that it “definitely showed that students do have power when they speak with one voice and organize...
...Chief of Staff, testified publicly before the war that it could take "several hundred thousand troops" to occupy Iraq, he found himself a general non grata, and the rest of the brass got the message. A year later, junior officers are no longer holding their tongues. "He wants to wage a war consistent with this fantasy of what a war is rather than what it is in reality," an Army officer at the Pentagon says privately of Rumsfeld. "It's this bulls___ notion that you can have an efficient military instead of an effective...
...illegal immigrants guest-worker status, appears to be going nowhere. Conservatives spurn it as a reward for illegal activities, while liberals complain that it doesn't go far enough. A welfare-reform bill, which would toughen work requirements, got caught in a tussle over whether to raise the minimum wage. Meanwhile, even with gasoline prices rising, the energy bill that was once a top priority for Dick Cheney is now limping along; some Democrats are trying to break it up to pass the salvageable parts, like measures aimed at preventing another blackout. The one major bill that has moved through...