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...urged audience members to not lose sight of domestic issues at election time and advised voters to consider issues such as minimum wage and Arctic drilling before voting...
This development doesn't mean the end of FSAs. As they save money by shifting more health costs to employees, some companies may spice their FSAs with a matching contribution. So use-it-or-lose-it remains an issue. Congressman Royce wants FSAs to accumulate without limit. At a minimum, unused FSA funds should roll over with the provision that future contributions be suspended until the money from previous years is spent. That's what we should tell lawmakers...
...Even in the clothing manufacturing business?a bulwark of developing Asian economies?the country seems to be giving away any competitive advantage it once had by way of a cheap labor force. Minimum wages in Indonesia have grown rapidly?in Jakarta, by nearly 40% this year alone?and now are higher than in more developed Thailand, relative to each country's per capita income. Unions are now pushing for ill-conceived labor laws that call for employers to pay workers whenever they go on strike?effectively forcing manufacturers to underwrite crippling work stoppages at their own factories...
...responsibility for the horrendous decline in wages and benefits Harvard janitors saw in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Living Wage Campaign was formed in response to Harvard’s willingness to use companies like UNICCO on campus, companies which refused to provide their workers with a minimum standard of living including living wages, health care and full-time work...
...establish a humane standard of living. Ninety years later, after many struggles including the Mass. Hall student sit-in during spring 2001, it’s time for Harvard to atone for its past mistakes and demonstrate that it is now truly committed to helping provide at least a minimum standard of dignity for working people. In this spirit, Harvard should pressure UNICCO to meet the striking janitors’ demands, or else sever all ties with the company. Harvard students, in a complete reversal of the actions of their 1912 counterparts, should join the janitors on the picket lines...