The Tufts Daily Volume Lxx, Number 32
Norovirus hits Tufts football, field hockey teams before Homecoming games Tufts clinches victory at Wil- see FEATURES/ PAGE 3 liams for first time since 1981 SEE SPORTS / BACK PAGE Tom Hanks delivers superb performance in new Steven Spielberg-directed drama, “Bridge of Spies” see ARTS AND LIVING / PAGE 5 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY EST. 1980 THE TUFTS DAILY VOLUME LXX, NUMBER 32 MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MASS. MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2015 tuftsdaily.com Protests continue over Tufts’ use of non-union construction labor by Ariel Barbieri-Aghib Anderson, Robinson and Bromfield- Contributing Writer Pearson Halls, that do not utilize fully union-employed labor. The Tufts administration’s hiring of “We want Tufts to make a commitment non-union workers and companies for to treating workers well, meaning good university construction projects has been pay and benefits alongside safer condi- challenged by protest efforts since this tions and better training,” Feuchs said. summer in the form of flyers, signs and, According to Vice President of in the past two weeks, mobile billboard Operations Linda Snyder, the admin- trucks on campus. istration was willing to compromise These actions have been organized with MBTC during their last meeting, by the Boston Metropolitan District but MBTC was uninterested. Building Trades Council (MBTC), an “We’ve had several meetings, but umbrella organization that works with [they’re] not interested in the things we and represents unionized construction put on the table,” she said. in the Boston area, according to Chelsea MBTC continuously demanded that Feuchs, the hospital and higher educa- all major construction should be done tion campaign coordinator for the MBTC.
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