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...directly involved in the negotiations (AlliedBarton is an independent contractor that employs the guards), SLAM said in a letter to Interim University President Derek C. Bok that the group will hold “Harvard University, the Harvard Corporation, and the President accountable for any continued violation of worker rights on campus...
...revealing such frank criticism from one of its own members, various versions circulated in samizdat as well as the Western press. According to one report Yeltsin had voiced widely held popular grievances about ordinary Russians' standard of living. "Comrades," he began, "I find it hard to explain to a worker why, in the 70th year of the dictatorship of the proletariat, he still has to stand in line for sausage that has more starch than meat...
...realize that Harvard often needs a bit of a push to enact policies that support workers, and hope that once again the student body will be a large component of that force. Harvard students have a long history of recognizing the need for student-worker solidarity and of pressuring the Harvard administration to recognize what it means to be an underpaid worker at Harvard. Students have organized together to make the administration more accountable to the Harvard community, and to recognize that when any part of our community suffers, we all suffer...
Students have frequently stood with Harvard’s workers, and this student-worker solidarity has been tremendously effective. We can use our unique position to send a clear message to Harvard: Students care about the way that workers are treated. We need to continue to demonstrate to the administration that the guards that keep us safe and with whom we interact daily are just as much a part of our community as our deans and professors, and we will not allow their demands for a better workplace to go ignored. As a university, Harvard can choose...
...affected,” Cisneros said, highlighting a collective responsibility to improve public education in America. The most prevalent issue during the question and answer portion of the event was immigration reform, and Cisneros presented a “three-part package” consisting of a guest worker program, stricter border controls, and a path to citizenship for workers who have been successful in the United States. “If we don’t figure out how to integrate immigrants into our society, not just in terms of legalization, then the country is going to suffer...