Harvard Workers Fight Layoffs

Joshua Koritz
|  November 1, 2009

In spite of a massive endowment—still valued at $26 billion despite the stock-market slide—Harvard has laid off between 200 and 500 clerical, technical, and janitorial workers, many of them union members. The school is hinting at another round of layoffs this winter.

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by Ferdinand | Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:23am

If lay off would be the

If lay off would be the scenario everyday what kind of future do you think we have in the near future? Do have the future to look forward to ? That is a question perhaps lingering on the mind of those laid off individual. Every time there is job loss we can’t leave behind the fear of having uncertain future. Have you heard the Microsoft layoffs? Microsoft is a company that excels and innovates- even with Microsoft layoffs! The 5,000 that were sent packing weren't apparently, enough, and now 800 more will join the ranks of the Microsoft Layoffs.

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