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Negotiators for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254 and two Harvard subcontractors signed a contract to institute higher wages and additional benefits for outsourced janitors that match those of Harvard janitors yesterday...
Yesterday’s agreement comes nearly a month and a half after Harvard-employed janitors ratified a contract which gave them at least $11.35 per hour...
...demanding jobs--as a wheelchair attendant at Los Angeles International Airport and a security guard in an office tower. He still works 40 hours a week at the airport, but thanks to the city's five-year-old "living wage" ordinance, which raised the minimum wage for firms that contract with the city, his hourly pay has jumped from $5.75 to $9.54. He has been able to drop his second job and now studies at a local college for what he hopes will be a better job, as a counselor to substance abusers. Gibbons, 31, who is unmarried, says...
...Harvey, a fearsome tank of a man with the temper and competitive streak of Bobby Knight, screams, threats and smears were simply standard operating procedure. Miramax executives, says a producer, "are like victims of abuse." Harvey became famous for his office tantrums, along with his combative intrusiveness during contract negotiations and his micromanaging of production. Add to that the fact that the brothers "spent money like it was water," says a source. Notes friendly foe Katzenberg: "I really do appreciate his passion and love of movies, but Harvey's greatest flaw is his insatiable capacity for competitiveness...
...little, but hope for a storybook ending was not lost. Crockett was a local product, hailing Topsfield, Mass, and the Red Sox were his boyhood team. The “local boy makes good” angle was made-to-order—all Crockett needed was a contract...