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Maintenance Workers Back on the Job As Strike Ends by Michele Thomas Operating Costs © THE BSERVER February 21, 1996 THE STUDENT VOICE OF FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER VOLUME.xv. NO. n Maintenance Workers Back on the Job as Strike Ends By Michele Thomas operating costs. The Realty union, told the Times that the policy Advisory Board, which repre- was a "two-tier wage system," while After a month of standing in the sents building owners, stated management argued that it was mod- cold, maintenance workers at that maintenance workers in eled after the apprenticeship wages Fordham College at Lincoln Center New York City have the high- construction workers receive. Also, ended their strike last week after est salaries in the country, and new workers would not receive health Local 32B-32J of the Service a drop in rents has been caus- benefits for the first six months of Employees International Union ing the building owners to lose their contract. The union also favored reached a tentative agreement with money. The Board added that a 3.5% wage increase over manage- the real estate industry. tenants whom could not afford ment's proposed 2% raise each year of As reported in the New York the high operating costs in the three-year contract. Times,, the agreement is a compro- New York City were being dri- During the final weekend of the mise on the part of both management ven to relocate to the suburbs strike, management and labor and the union. It allows'management or to other cities where the negotiations lasted until .4 AM on to pay new employees only twenty per- rents are lower. Union mem- Saturday, February 3rd. The following cent than currentworkers, rather than bers opposed the proposal afternoon, according to the New York the forty-eight percent less they because they feared it would Times, the two sides asked Randy demanded. The new agreement also encourage employers to Levine, foFmer New York City Labor stipulates that it will take only 2.5 replace veteran workers with Commissioner, to help mediate final years for new employees to receive newer, less-expensive workers, stages of the negotiations, and the the full contract rate. Janitors would Management originally pro- agreement was reached early Monday receive a wage increase of about 2.7 posed a starting jsatary of 48% morning. percent each year of the three-year lower.than that pf veteran Doug Mitchell, Director of workers, about $230 less per agreement, and while benefits would Ivan Yiducic returns to his job after Facilities Operations, and Charles be delayed for new employees, man- nearly a month of striking week than at present and they McNiff, Director of Special Projects agement agreed to improve the den- would have to wait about six for Facilities Operations, could not be tal/medical and pension benefits for the New York Times , the conflict years to receive the full contract rate, reached for comment about the tenta- current workers. grew out of what.management offi- according to the Suike Bulletin #4. tive resolution. • According to an article reported in cials said was the need to reduce Gus Bevona, president of the striking Rwanda Demands Accountability for Genocide Horror FORDHAM By Thomas N.S. Buscemi A group of students assembled in WORLD the Plaza Cafe to attend a speech given by Efraim Zuroff on the geno- cide that recently occurred in Rwanda. WATCH Zuroff didn't just recount history and tell what happened in the events of the mass genocide, but educated his audi- ence as to how and why this mass genocide occurred. Zuroff was visiting from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization showed a blownup church -the result that is devoted to (racking down Nazi of destruction between those at war. war criminals. With graphic pho- He noted that bricks of the church tographs and powerful speech as his would be pulled out of the walls so that tools for imprinting what had really grenades could be thrown in so as happened in Rwanda, Zuroff added to provide for as much destruction force and feeling to his speech while and death as possible. The people personifying the destruction. At one of Rwanda were bombarded with point in his oration, Zuroff showed a mass propaganda, with the general,, picture of a table Of hundreds of underlying sentiment ,"everyone human skulls lined up. Another photo involved, HO Continued on Page 5 Fordham's POETRY SCENE Residential life Says Goodbye to Resident Directors By Cara Lynn Shultz ehe> cu'iA "Vnn PROFESS IN THE NEWS C RIM 3 BLOTTER By Michele Thomas Professor DeLuca's New Book Thursday, January 25,10:00 AM Some towels were reported missing from Explores the Democratic Society the second floor laundry room of the Lincoln Center Residence Hall,The matter Is still under inves- By Maryann Reid tigation. "We don't know if they were stolen, or inad- vertently remove," said George Henshaw, Associate At his fifth year at, Fordham Director of Security."! would suggest to residents that University Thomas DeLuca, they arrange, somehow, for someone to always moni- Professor of Political Science, has tor their laundry, so we can eliminate problems like done what other Fordham profes- that. Bring a book, bring some schoolwork that you sors have done. He's written a have to do, bring your friend, read the newspaper, book. The Two Faces of Political whatever, so {long as] you don't leave." Apathy explains the reasons of non participation in our democrat- Sunday, January 29, 11 :l 5AM ic society. The goal of the book "is A Marriot Food Service employee refused to comply to enbanue the American democ- with the request of a security officer to show his ID ratic institution and get out the card at the Lowensteia entrance. Eventually the person idea that American democracy complied, and it was discovered that he had a very old can be as full as possible." ID card. He was directed to get a valid ID card.The "My book tries to give a better incident was referred to the Marriot management understanding to what we mean Dr. Tom DeLuca signing his new book, The Two Faces of Political Apathy office. • when,we say someone is apathet- ic. And try not to let the idea of political apathy mis- On the inside cover of The Two Faces, of Between 3:45 PM-8:15 PM a,resident stu- lead us into thinking that people who don't vote Political Apathy there is a quote from a homeless dent signed an outsider into the resilience hall as a vis- simply don't care, " DeLuca explained. He points New Yorker which said, "Nothing is more useful itor. It Was later discovered that the who|e thing was a out, "People may care quite a bit, but the political than a good theory." DeLuca explained that he ruse in order for the outsider to solicit tickets for the system may not be meeting their needs, and there chose this quote "to show that to be able to have a Uptom Comedy Club. Apparently the resident was not fore, they abstain from participating." coherent understanding of the world isn't some- acquainted with [the outsider], but permitted him to DeLuca believes that there is strong correlation thing just for textbooks." go around the building. "Signing in an unknown person between nonvoting, socioeconomic class, and edu- In his book, DeLuca includes suggestions for jeopardizes all of the residents," Henshaw said. cation in the United States. He says that in Europe reform that will help accomplish "real political • "Security is everyone's responsibility here." the voter turnout is not as dependent on econom- equality." Some of them are—private wealth ics, class or education, l^ess educated people in must be eliminated from politics, public issues . Sunday, February 4,2:00 AM Europe vote slightly less than the more educated, should be more understandable, and that the A male resident student tried to beat the fare on a but in the United States they vote much less. He idea that each citizen counts equally should be * taxi which he had taken back to campus. After a short stresses that Americans are living in undemocratic implemented. investigation, the student was identified. Security DeLuca encourages resolved the matter with the taxi driver and the mat- people who read his ter was referred to the Dean of Students. 'Try not to let the idea of book to use democratic decision making to Wednesday, February 7, 12:40 AM shape society in a way A male resident law student gave his, ID .card to a Political Apathy mislead that will benefit them. female visitor to have her gain entry without signing in He said he wouldn't as a visitor. mind seeing students us into thinking that people who don't more active in politics Thursday, February 8 „ as long as they believe A GBA sweatshirt, valued at $45; was stolen from they can actually have the merchandise display case. A different type lock has an impact on what been installed. vote simply Don't Care." happens politically. He -^————————— said, "It's important for Friday, February 9, 11:30-4:00 PM ' circumstances, such as large inequities in wealth college students to get out in the world and see A female student's wallet was stolen in the Qulon and income among its peoples. The gaps in those to what degree they can participate." Library when she lift her backpack unattended several areas in the United States are larger than they are DeLuca had been working on his book for four times.The wallet, valued at $100, contained personal in other industrialized countries.
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