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...effectively busted the guards’ union. The savings that administrators realized were minimal, but the costs to our community were immense: because administrators refused to negotiate with the guards’ union as required by law, our guards had already gone four years without raises and a union contract. They now saw their wages cut overnight from roughly $12 to $8 per hour and their benefits similarly slashed. The people who guard our dorms today typically work 80 hours a week to compensate for these poverty wages, and they have no union through which to challenge this abuse...
...Turlington has also signed on as an editor at large for Yoga Journal magazine, and has a contract with Hyperion to write a book about being a student of yoga - "kind of a 'Why Yoga'," she says - focused on all aspects of yoga, not just the hatha (physical) branch...
According to Keller, HPRE is looking outside of Cambridge because of restrictions like the Red Line Agreement, a contract the city negotiated in the 1960s to prevent Harvard from over-extending its residential campus. The contract said that Harvard would not build or purchase residential property in Cambridge outside of a closely delineated area...
Think you've got a big tax bill? Consider the plight of Luis Figo. The soccer star was acquired last year by the Spanish team Real Madrid, which agreed to pay him $4 million a year and bought out his contract by paying archrival Barcelona a world record $56 million. Spanish tax authorities have not normally considered the funds for such buyouts to be income taxable to the athlete. But Barcelona--smarting from the loss of its best player--initially indicated it had received the funds from Figo rather than Real Madrid, which attracted the attention of tax officials, Spanish...
...cutting-edge London designer Alexander McQueen from LVMH. Now the pair are set to announce that Chloe's STELLA MCCARTNEY (a media-garnering celebrity favorite and Paul's daughter) is launching her own label under Gucci; red-hot fashion star Nicolas Ghesquiere will also join the group. McCartney's contract at Chloe is believed to expire in June; Ghesquiere is bringing the legendary haute- couture house Balen- ciaga under the upstart Gucci Group umbrella. Not bad considering that just 18 months ago Gucci "Group" was composed of just Gucci. Since then, American Ford, 39, who designs the Gucci and Yves...