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Everyone knows soda is bad for your teeth, but are some sodas bad for your conscience as well? Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which raises awareness of workers?? rights and labor issues on campus with its “Right to Organize” project, has turned its attention to the Coca-Cola Corporation and its “horrendous violations...of fundamental human rights,” says SLAM member Adaner Usmani ’08. SLAM wants Harvard to wash its hands of alleged dirty dealings, and has demanded that the university...
...hour event staring into the audience, Summers occasionally prodded the scholars to a more aggressive debate on issues of tax policy, budget deficits, and globalization. Summers urged the economists, who kept returning to nuanced policy discussions, to come up with more practical political advice. Referring to Flint, Mich., where workers?? jobs are being outsourced, he challenged the academics to come up with a realistic suggestion for the Buick-city mayor. “That’s the political reality,” said Summers, pointing to former Senator Bob Graham D-Fla. in the audience...
...Coca-Cola Company is committed to promoting fair labor practices everywhere we do business. In Colombia and around the world, we respect workers?? rights to unionize and we do not tolerate intimidation of union members. We engage regularly with internationally respected organizations to review our labor standards and to work with us in assessing compliance with these standards in our operations worldwide...
...exits. Moreover, none of the College’s greatest accomplishments during the past five years—the creation of a new office to centralize responses to the campus sexual assault epidemic, the revamping of the core curriculum, and the first steps towards fairer wages for some campus workers??were the result of Summers’ efforts, and sometimes met with substantial resistance from him. I hope that in Summers’ absence, the Harvard community will be better able to strive for excellence and constant improvement in the kind of open and respectful environment that proved...
Beyond advocating unionization rights, SLAM hopes to replicate its earlier success with janitors by supporting the dining services workers in their upcoming renegotiation with Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). The HUDS workers?? contracts expires on June...