Word: union
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaigns of Fentrice Driskell '01 and Burton lead the field, with endorsements from the Black Students Association (BSA), the Black Men's Forum, the liberal magazine Perspective, Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), Students for Choice, the Environmental Action Committee (EAC), and one-half of the BGLTSA's split endorsement...
According to Donene Williams, treasurer of HUCTW, a union management committee that she chairs--known as the Technical Services Workgroup--already has been established to study the potential move's impact on workers and to negotiate with the administration...
...Nothing is very definite," said Dupree, "but what we've heard is that some faculty members will get office space in Widener and it's also generally assumed among the union members that the suits will take over and have plush new spaces...
They told me chilling stories about the difficulties they encounter. One was a union organizer from El Salvador named Jiovanni. Just weeks ago, the company he was trying to organize told him how much it would cost to have him killed: 100 colones, which is the equivalent of about $11.40. What's that to this company, when every hat made in the sweatshops Jiovanni was trying to organize sells for $20? In the past months, this organizer has even been personally attacked by the president of El Salvador--for his efforts to improve conditions there. The national newspapers attacked...
...bathroom break each morning and another at night. They are denied clean drinking water and clean air. They face forced overtime virtually everyday. They are forced to take birth control pills and pregnancy tests and are fired if they become pregnant. They are fired for saying the word "union." They live in shacks. They are as young...