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Workers agree on new contract ■ The Dining Workers and
Aramark employees have been negotiating since May. By HILLEL BUECHLER and DANIELLE GROSS JUSTICE EDITOR and CONTRIBUTING writer
Yesterday, unionized Dining Services workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new five-year contract after months of negotiations between Aramark and Unite HERE Local 26, according to Dana
■ Nick Rodis transformed
Brandeis sports and served as director of Athletics for 17 years.
Simon, an organizing director with Unite HERE, in an interview with the Justice. While a tentative agreement on the contract was reached early Thursday morning between Unite HERE Local 26, the union that represents the dining workers, and Aramark, the contract was not formally accepted until yesterday’s vote, which took place in the International Lounge. Workers could arrive and place their votes between 2 and 5 p.m. Negotiations began May 26 and
were originally supposed to have been settled by the last day of June, when the contract was set to expire. However, the settlement was halted until recently due to a disagreement over health insurance coverage, said Simon last month. Instead, the workers operated under the old contract until a new one was agreed upon. Simon said in an interview with the Justice that 98.6 percent of the unionized workers voted in favor of the new contract and that it includes “very important protections
… that will mean greater respect for the workers.” Among some of the changes in the contract voted upon were retroactive wage increases, revised health insurance terms and overall policy changes to benefit the University dining workers. At the meeting on Thursday, it was decided that the workers would be entitled to the Unite HERE Trust Fund Food Service Health Plan, which will be effective January 1.
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By JOSH ASEN JUSTICE SENIOR WRITER
Nick Rodis, Brandeis’ director of Athletics from 1967 to 1984, died last Friday at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital at the age of 87. “He was the guy who turned Brandeis Athletics around,” men’s soccer coach Mike Coven said. “Prior to him, they were awful. The University didn’t really care much or put any importance on college athletics. He came in, and by the mid-1970s we might have had the best all-around Division III program in the country. … And that’s when people in the University realized the importance of college athletics and the positive rewards that a good athletics department could bring to Brandeis.” Rodis, an inductee to the Brandeis Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000, helped found seven women’s varsity sports during his time at the school. He also was at the helm of the University’s only two NCAA Division III Championships, which were won by the men’s soccer team in 1976 and the men’s cross country squad in 1983. In to-
Dukakis speaks on political climate ■ Former Governor
Dukakis discussed recent developments in politics and government. By JONATHAN EPSTEIN JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Michael Dukakis, the former Governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, spoke in the Carl J. Shapiro Theater Wednesday evening, recounting his past in politics and views on a medley of current issues at an event sponsored by the Brandeis Democrats. He began with a brief speech exhorting students to consider a career in government. “I hope every single one of you here is seriously thinking about a career in public service and a career in politics,” he said, before launching into the story of his path to higher office. He reflected on the sacrifices made by his parents. “Who was I?” he asked. The “son of immigrants. Both of my parents came to this country. Both of them did extraordinarily well,” he continued. According to Dukakis, his father immigrated to America in 1912 without “a nickel in his pockets,” and Dukakis’ uncles worked in the textile mills in Lawrence and Lowell, Mass. Twelve years later, Dukakis’ father graduated from Harvard Medical School, and his mother was the first Greek-American woman to go to college in American history, according to Dukakis. He credited his initial success in Brookline, Mass. town politics to his willingness to go door-to-door, personally meeting and talking with voters and developing personal relations with them. He joked that many of his constituents voted for him because they thought he was Jewish. Dukakis blamed many of the Demo-
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SUCCESS STORY: The former Massachusetts governor reflected on both his parents’ accomplisments and his own achievements. cratic losses in the 2010 congressional election on the candidates’ failure to instill a similar grassroots campaign. Dukakis blamed himself for his loss to George H. W. Bush in 1988. With his voice rising, he said, “I owe you all an apology, for God’s sake.
If I had beaten Bush I, you would have never heard of Bush II, and we wouldn’t be in this mess. So it’s all my fault.” He expressed the same regret in an interview with Katie Couric at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. During a lengthy question-and-
answer session, Dukakis expressed his displeasure with a slew of recent domestic developments. He called the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court on corporate free speech an “outrageous decision” and Mitt Romney “a fraud” with a
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The Judges were defeated by UAA rival Case Western in their only match of the week.
The search committee for the CIO has narrowed down the pool of candidates to a group of 10.
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HALL OF FAME: Rodis brought the Brandeis athletics Division III program to a place of prominence.
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