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...terrorist groups. But since the destruction of the Afghan training camps last year, it has had to decentralize many of its operations. That has not diminished its power. Many al-Qaeda operatives are now back in their homelands, or in third countries, making common cause with Islamic groups to wage jihad against the U.S. and its allies. These factions, inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, do not require contact with one another, or a central authority, to act as al-Qaeda would want them to. "Bin Laden unleashed forces accumulating for many years, and all the gloves...
...urged audience members to not lose sight of domestic issues at election time and advised voters to consider issues such as minimum wage and Arctic drilling before voting...
According to Provost Steven E. Hyman, the idea of an ombudsperson arose in the wake of the Katz Committee report on labor and wage policy at Harvard issued last year. The idea was to address the “perception that some employees feel they have no ‘safe harbor’ to take concerns,” Hyman wrote in an e-mail...
...major landowner in the Greater Boston area, and owns a number of buildings cleaned by UNICCO Most importantly, over 400 janitors at Harvard are employed by UNICCO, making them the largest subcontractor on campus. As such, UNICCO and Harvard deserve much of the responsibility for the horrendous decline in wages and benefits Harvard janitors saw in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Living Wage Campaign was formed in response to Harvard’s willingness to use companies like UNICCO on campus, companies which refused to provide their workers with a minimum standard of living including living wages, health care...
...obligation to cut its contract with UNICCO. As was negotiated in the Harvard janitors’ contract last winter, all janitors would retain their jobs were this to happen. The practice of subcontracting is generally harmful to workers, and it has always been a demand of the Living Wage Campaign that Harvard discontinue this practice. Rather than hiring another contractor, Harvard should again directly employ all the janitors currently employed by UNICCO in order to end the threat of future wage erosion caused by subcontracting, and to encourage other institutions to follow this example...