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Smith, who has also been active in the Living Wage Campaign, Har’d Corps and Undergraduate Council, began to make plans for the umbrella organization at the suggestion of Elizabeth S. Thrall ’05 about two months...
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254, which represents Harvard janitors, has called for a higher wage than the figure offered in the HCECP report. SEIU asked for base wages beginning at $14 and increasing to $15.50 over the three years that will be covered by the new contract...
Summers needs to stop stalling; he can and must eliminate poverty-wage jobs on campus. When the University’s negotiating team comes back to the bargaining table, we expect it to take janitors’ demands seriously. And to ensure that it does, now more than ever, students and faculty must show solidarity with Harvard janitors in their fight for jobs with justice...
Eight hundred dollars a semester in books and coursepacks is not a minor expense. A friend on a full scholarship is given only a $600 yearly allowance for books; at a fairly standard student wage of $10 per hour it would take 80 hours (ignoring possible income taxes) to make up the difference. That’s at least eight working weeks on a student schedule—most of the semester...
...little that Khaksar has divulged - to an American general and his intelligence aide -is tantalizing. For example, after the loss of Kandahar, elements of the Taliban and al-Qaeda formed a new group based in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Called "al Farkan," its goal was to wage jihad against the American presence in Afghanistan. Khaksar says that there are people in the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency, who know about this and may be involved. He says that the ISI agents are still mixed up with the Taliban and al-Qaeda and that the ISI recently assassinated an Afghan...