Tag: labor
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Working for the Weekend
By Melissa Carinha Tiffany Claud, 22, is one of the hundreds of students who have to balance work, school and a social life. Just when Claud thought she had enough on her plate, she discovered her mother was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer. Claud is interning at the SUNY New Paltz University Police Department,…
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Occupy Wall Street and the Unions
If the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests have not annoyed you yet, you aren’t talking to the right people. The protests have attracted flannel-clad hipsters decrying the Tea Party as “fascists,” sociology majors decrying contemporary science as “informed by matrices of Western oppression,” iPhone owners attacking corporate greed while mourning Steve Jobs, and, of course,…