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...hour—a miserly 15 cents more than their first offer—and nothing in terms of affordable health insurance. The Harvard negotiators present their offers with disingenuous and patronizing claims to having “worked really hard” and “listened to workers?? needs.” Yet these offers have proven unacceptable to the dozen workers on the union’s bargaining team who know that their families need more than an extra dollar and change to get by. Most currently earn less than $10 per hour. These wage...
...part of President Bush’s plan to revitalize the economy, tax relief is extended to all workers??not just the wealthy, as some erroneously claim. Low-income Americans already enjoy a new 10 percent tax bracket, which replaced the 15 percent bracket Jan. 1. A family of four earning $30,000 will save nearly $1,000 per year thanks to the bipartisan tax relief act President Bush signed last June. In fact, under the tax relief act, the rich will actually pay a larger share of total federal taxes than before...
Under the current timetable, Harvard hopes to complete union negotiations by May and to develop a parity wage plan—to ensure outsourced workers receive similar pay and benefits to comparable in-house workers??by March...
...race matters at Harvard. Race also matters at Princeton and elsewhere. But people of color—students and workers??do not have the luxury and privilege to simply pack up and leave their schools or jobs whenever they encounter racial discomfort. I would hope that our esteemed professors would be sensitive to the fact that, for most people of color, life is not a china shop...
...outcome demonstrates Summers’ leadership on this issue and his ability to work constructively with others who have interests in Harvard’s wages. Moreover, the decision requiring wage parity and wage raises are very important and significant steps forward in improving Harvard’s workers?? quality of life...