Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...construction worker told me last week, 'only a few more days,'" said one Eliot resident, who said she did not believe Montville's 10-day estimate...
...soldiers carried machine guns and rode around Nagorno-Karabakh's main city, Stepanakert, in tanks and armored personnel carriers, said the resident, who identified herself in a telephone interview only as a worker for the state broadcasting agency Gostelradio...
Before the votes from Cambridge--where LoPresti was expected to win by large margin--had been tallied, a campaign worker announced that Travaglini had conceded, and the song "Celebration" burst out of the speakers...
...campaign--and, in some cases, because of it--a majority of the support staff voted for the union. Yet, the administration jumped in to challenge the verdict. Even though the closeness of the vote may have justified this interference, Harvard's action casts further doubt on its attitude toward workers and their ability to decide their own fate. Such challenges are a common tactic for employers to delay a union's certification and contract negotiations; the University has already dragged out past union election bids for as long as two years--decreasing awareness of the issues among staff and devaluing...
Worse yet, when women do arrive, it seems Harvard is not treating them as fairly as it should be. In a suit filed by former Facilities and Maintenance worker Charlotte Walters, a jury found Harvard guilty of sexual discrimination on one count when it failed to discipline a worker who harassed Walters. On the faculty level, women shoulder a larger portion of the undesirable administrative burden than do their male counterparts--holding 31 percent of the head tutor jobs, although they comprise only 14 percent of the faculty eligible for these posts...