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Tick off any of the following if you've done them on holiday: a) winced at the number of fluffy bathrobes you got through; b) realized that the barman's weekly wage wouldn't pay for one of the many pina coladas you've just drained; c) wished you could meet a local, other than that barman; d) thought the beach was lovely-if only they hadn't stuck an unsightly hotel...
...justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job in December to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66? an hour (instead of the 34? they had been receiving). Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city hall. The next day their employer, a Hong Kong firm called...
...student walkers will likely hold costs down, and according to McLoughlin, HUCEP could save money if its employees are Federal Work Study grant recipients. But, he added, “I’m sure it’s not going to be inexpensive.” The starting wage is $10.25 an hour, 15 cents more than Dorm Crew, McLoughlin said. And while he pledged the College would foot the bill at first, he speculated that graduate schools might help pick up the tab if their students and faculty use the service extensively...
...employees began receiving the union wage in May 2003, but the university did not agree to give the workers retroactive pay until Nov. 2003, according to LaBua...
Bartley said it is “inexplicable” why the University waited seven months after the employees began receiving the union wage to pay back wages...