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...This being the Internet, I'm obligated to tell you "The Lone Gunmen" was cancelled and "The X-Files" will return, without David Duchovny, but with Gillian Anderson, who will be dragged in screaming by a team of wild horses and the two-year contract she regretted signing the second "The House of Mirth" wrapped. There will also be a "Temptation Island 2." Which is as good a time as any to leave the assembled crowd now, as they embark below deck, for one final grueling round of eating giant cocktail shrimp, getting hammered and buying some...
...wouldn’t be an entirely one-sided deal, either. The Sox players would benefit as well. Contract negotiations could be settled with relative ease. For example, if Pedro Martinez wants more money, he could sit in your office, call up a few old Senators for help and get you to assign a committee to study how much he should make. Painless...
...Offner ’01 spoke about the terms of the settlement which ended the 21 day sit-in on May 8. The agreement included a new committee to assess Harvard’s employment policies, a freeze on outsourcing and an early reopening of contract negotiations with the main custodial union...
...have organized and won something tremendous in Harvard Yard these past three weeks. Since I entered Massachusetts Hall on April 18, workers at Harvard have seen countless victories. As part of the sit-in settlement, our janitors will begin negotiating a new contract more than a year early—and any future pay increases will be retroactive to last week. The University committed to a good contract for our dining hall workers. The administration completely backed off from its threat to reclassify more than 100 of our dining hall workers at the Business School. They agreed to increase access...
...because dozens of people occupied the President’s office. The past 21 days are significant because of what happened outside of this building. Dining hall workers electrified Harvard Yard; worker-student solidarity is so strong that they want to have one of us help bargain their new contract. Faculty came together; about 400 of Harvard’s famously individualistic professors together signed a letter calling for a living wage, and supporting the sit-in. Undergraduates turned out in record numbers for the largest rallies that the Yard has seen in decades, and students from every single graduate...