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Other works include Wage Determination Under Trade Unions (1944), Collective Bargaining: Principles and Cases (1949), Labor in the Twentieth Century (1978) and Labor and the American Community (1970), which he co-authored with...
...course most smoking-ban advocates have not considered such measures because this ban isn’t about protecting workers. If that were the case these same people would be lobbying for better health coverage or higher wages for bar and restaurant employees, many of whom make far below minimum wage and rely almost wholly on tips to make ends meet. Were it about helping out bartenders these Smoke Nazis would have considered the adverse effects the smoking ban will have on bartenders. Let’s take New York, where the economic impact of the ban has been...
...while the general quality of students’ bathroom-cleaning service will likely rise, the transfer of this work from students to a contractor is regrettable. The student exodus from the Dorm Crew labor market is due to the decline in the job’s relative wage. Three years ago, with a starting hourly rate of $9.85, Dorm Crew stood out as one of the most generous employers on campus. When adjusted for inflation, today’s $10.15 an hour starting salary is significantly less attractive—only $9.47 an hour in 2000 dollars. In fact...
...seems incongruous that The Staff, which has in the past given a strong endorsement of the Living Wage and the rights of Harvard’s support staff, is now perturbed that workers seem to be “encroaching” on students’ activities. The Staff’s calls for increasing wages for student dorm crew workers—basically subsidizing a “relaxation” from the “rigors” of being able to enjoy the world’s best undergraduate education—would deny giving this work...
...course most smoking-ban advocates have not considered such measures because this ban isn’t about protecting workers. If that were the case these same people would be lobbying for better health coverage or higher wages for bar and restaurant employees, many of whom make far below minimum wage and rely almost wholly on tips to make ends meet. Were it about helping out bartenders these Smoke Nazis would have considered the adverse effects the smoking ban will have on bartenders. Let’s take New York, where the economic impact of the ban has been...