Word: subcontracting
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...confront the office workers and executives who work in these same buildings during the day and often earn six-figure salaries. These people are able to afford doctors and medicine to cure the slightest sneeze. The policies of cleaning companies, and the eagerness of institutions and buildings to subcontract work at the lowest cost, has helped to create a hierarchy of health, in which the lives of some are declared much more valuable than those of others...
...wait until its alarm goes off. Another factor is that al-Qaeda, according to intelligence seized in Afghanistan, is trying to procure nukes too. The British government discounts all claims of any Iraqi connection with al-Qaeda over Sept. 11, and it's unlikely that Saddam would ever subcontract delivery of WMDs to any outside group. Nevertheless, Sept. 11 may have alerted him to the attractions of unorthodox attacks. In fact, Blair has been stressing the dangers of WMD proliferation for years. "This is our moment of maximum opportunity," says an adviser, "when the U.S. has woken up from...
...preach the home-school gospel. "I'm here to talk about the revolution of common sense," he told a Denver home-schooling conference in June. Working himself up to promote K12, his slick, new, for-profit online school for home schoolers, Bennett even suggested that "maybe we should subcontract all of public education to home schoolers." It was strange to watch a man once responsible for federal aid to public schools urge people to desert them. Imagine if Colin Powell gave a speech saying we should disband the U.S. Army and assemble local militias...
Such a policy is both feasible and just. For Harvard, the additional costs of the policy would be but a drop in the vast budget bucket. More than 1,000 employees hired under subcontract currently earn barely enough to stay above the poverty line. As many of these workers must support families at home, it is ironic that their wages are significantly lower than those earned by most part-time students on the Harvard payroll...
...University has claimed it has no responsibility for the wages of these employees since they are hired under subcontract. Nevertheless, subcontracted workers are still Harvard workers. Surely the University can do better...