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...when I was such a graduate student at Yale in the mid-'90s, I found that I thought more about collective bargaining, binding arbitration and union-busting. Yale's campus saw three painful labor strikes in 1995, when neither of the recognized unions was able to settle a new contract with the university and the nascent teaching fellows union was forcefully pushing for legal recognition. While the unions for clerical/technical and service/maintenance workers finally won contracts, graduate student teachers did not. Their struggle has continued over the last five years...
Rents in the Square have skyrocketed in recent years. According to a representative from Harvard Square Realty, although rent prices depend heavily on contract negotiations, most often, commercial spaces in Harvard Square now rent for $75 to $100 per square foot each month...
Early in the game, RZA convinced his fellow rappers that if they put their solo careers on hold, they'd share in a giant pot of gold via the vagaries of corporate synergy. He was right. The Wu-Tang brand blossomed under an unprecedented 1993 contract the band signed with Loud Records (Sony owns a 49% stake) that allowed each member to branch into solo projects on other labels. Every few years the group pulls together for an album, thus raising each member's visibility and bolstering the branding strength of Wu-Tang, Inc. It then launches a new crop...
...meeting was not placed on the council agenda until last week, and many councillors said they were unclear whether they were gathering to evaluate Healy's performance or renegotiate his contract...
Despite the confusion about the purpose of last night's meeting, the council did move to renew Healy's contract, with most councillors praising the job he has done as city manager...