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...union wage at the time was $11.85 an hour...
...University’s contract with custodians mandates that contractors who invoice Harvard above $50,000 annually and have contracts extending for a period longer than nine months are obligated to pay their workers a wage equal to the wage paid to Harvard’s own employees...
...three workers were employed by the Harvard maintenance contractor McGarr Services Inc., which Harvard discovered was operating under two company names—McGarr and White Glove Inc.—in a possible effort to skirt University policies regarding parity wage...
...long been a supporter of gun control and gay rights, though not gay marriage. He voted against mandatory sentences for drug dealers who sell to children; against the death penalty, even for cop killers; against restrictions on abortion. He favored higher gas taxes and raising the minimum wage; he supported providing disability payments to people whose disability was drug addiction or alcoholism--a position he defended in part because of the number of veterans still wrestling with substance-abuse problems...
KERRY: A thinking Democrat. You can call me an old-fashioned New Deal Democrat on X or Y. I'm not going to break faith on Social Security. I'm not going to abandon people who are struggling to earn a decent wage. But call me a New Democrat when it comes to creating jobs and being entrepreneurial and understanding the bottom line of business...