Word: waging
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...terms of wages, benefits and contracting, there have been large improvements in the last year,” he said. “There have been very large [wage] increases, much larger than any national trend...
...seems to me the long-term plan is clear—drive out the unions,” said HUCTW member Randy Fenstermacher. “Then bring in the low-wage workers...
...rhetoric of all these workers earning below the living wage doesn’t seem to fit the reality,” he said. “The University has taken steps to try to make it easier for people to raise these issues...
...most solemn moments for an army preparing to wage war come right before it begins. For weeks now, the 250,000 soldiers positioned on Iraq's borders have been winding down their rehearsals, armed and ready to invade, waiting only for President Bush to declare that the diplomatic clock has run out. It appears they won't be waiting much longer. At the White House last Thursday night, Bush looked and sounded like a Commander in Chief who has already made up his mind. "It makes no sense to allow this issue to continue on and on," he said, surely...
...Crimson editorial on the Yale strike unfortunately oversimplifies the Yale labor situation (Editorial, “A Living Wage in New Haven”, March 7). Almost all Yale students agree that the Yale maintenance and service workers, represented by Locals 34 and 35, deserve better pay and benefits. Yale could also do more to help the New Haven community, being one of the richest institutions in the world located in one of the nation’s poorest cities. Yale, realizing this need, has offered a generous contract to those unions...