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...would dispute that our security officers’ wages, which force employees to work full-time seven days per week or to choose between buying food and medicine for their family, are inhumane. In 2002, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies declared that Harvard should not use outsourcing as a means to allow the veritable abuse of its workers, and Harvard codified this sentiment in its Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. Yet Harvard has been outsourcing its security officers since 1992, allowing the University to lower wages and shirk its committment to basic worker welfare...
...said the campaign is necessary to draw the attention of the community and the administration. The students, who officially started their hunger strike at 1:30 p.m. yesterday, said they will refrain from eating until the University pressures AlliedBarton to meet their demands for higher wages, steady work schedules, and other benefits. Although Harvard does not directly employ security guards, protesters said they believe the University does have the ability to influence contract negotiations. “Because Harvard pays AlliedBarton, Harvard does have the final say in the contract,” Aguilera said. “They have...
...global squeeze. In 2004 Siemens extracted an agreement from its workforce at two mobile-phone-handset plants in Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort to work longer hours and accept a cut in holiday pay. Frustrated union leaders say they were blackmailed into eating what amounted to a 20% wage cut. "We had to accept these terms because there was the constant threat that these jobs would go to Hungary if we didn't," says Wolfgang Mueller, who was IG Metall union's representative on the Siemens supervisory board at the time. The concession didn't help much. When Kleinfeld took over...
...said, we're talking fable here, not life as it is actually lived at the minimum-wage level, and Shelly had a nice gift for intricate plotting and broadly comical characterizations. The sexual eagerness, briefly, occasionally stayed by guilty hesitations between Jenna and her doctor is nicely judged and played with great brio. The same is true of the foot-sore waitresses. Maybe the guys they eventually settle for are far from ideal, but they are what's on offer there in East Overshoe, and the human animal will eventually settle for what warmth it can find as opposed...
...Questions such as these have long fascinated Goldin as she has studied the factors leading to inequality—in gender, race, and education.Previously, this has led her to study slavery in the antebellum South, labor participation of black and white women in the 1970s, and the history of wage inequality in the U.S.The latter topic is the subject of her latest book, co-written with her partner and colleague, Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz.For Goldin, writing about women is not a political decision but an academic one.“Women were always the interesting group...