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...claims that since Perot launched the new party, "volunteers are calling in from everywhere." He adds, "They realize this time that it's not just about Ross Perot." Even some activists disenchanted with Perot agree. "This is a redeeming act on his part," says Phil Madsen, an ex-Perot worker and a founder of the thriving Minnesota Independence Party who runs a draft-Powell cell in that state...
...When workers try to form a union, they can expect any number of responses—except for cooperation. A majority of employers hire union-busting consultants and force workers to attend one-on-one anti-union meetings. If workers are immigrants, some employers threaten to call the Department of Homeland Security. One in four employers facing a union campaign illegally fires at least one worker...
...meantime, the problem of union rights remains Harvard’s problem, too. Four years after the living wage sit-in, Harvard management has been slowly but surely replacing union workers in key sectors of the workforce. The last seven unionized security guards were laid off last year. And four female janitors, all union members, recently came to work to find their own jobs outsourced. They were reinstated only after large worker-student protests. If workers in these sectors try to organize anew this year, Harvard has a moral and legal obligation to recognize their right...
...Longwood Medical Campus to visit the Warren Anatomical Museum, located in Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine. Among its array of medical artifacts, the museum boasts the first ether inhaler, a skeleton of Siamese twins, and the skull of Phineas Gage—a railroad worker who experienced severe personality changes after a nail went through his frontal lobe...
Some couples who welcome kids year after year even become local representatives for their program. Becky and David Massey, 56 and 58, a food-service director and a factory worker in Oregon, Ohio, are typical. Through the Aspect Foundation, they welcomed kids from Germany, Ecuador and Palestine, among other faraway places. As volunteer representatives, the Masseys enlist host families and mediate any problems that arise during the school year...