Housing Market Accelerates
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家の価格がここ7年間でもっとも早く上昇している。
価格は、今年2月には1年前より9.3％上昇した（一方で、住宅ローン金利は最安値のまま）。
Home prices are rising at the fastest rate in seven years, with some communities seeing double-digit gains, as buyers are returning to a market where the number of properties for sale is in short supply.
Prices increased 9.3% in February from a year earlier while mortgage-interest rates hovered near record lows, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index that tracks home prices in 20 major metropolitan areas. All 20 cities posted year-over-year gains for the second consecutive month, which hasn't happened since 2005, before the crash.
Stop Captive Audience Intimidation at the University of Miami
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マイアミ大学で、キャンパスで働く労働者が組合に加入する権利を行使する際に、激しい脅迫を受けている。Compass Groupによって所有されているChartwellsという食品サービス会社は、非道徳的な反組合キャンペーンを始めた。
Compassは、白人の労働者にだけ客にサーブすることを認め、有色人種の労働者にはキッチンで働かせることを強いていた...
At the University of Miami, campus workers are facing fierce intimidation for exercising their right to join a union. Just days after agreeing to respect workers’ right to choose a union through a majority signup process, Chartwells, a food service corporation owned by Compass Group, launched a vicious anti-union campaign, holding mandatory captive audience meetings every few hours and telling workers that they “just want them to know the whole story.”
But what really is the whole story behind Compass Group? Just ask Compass employees at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia where, in a demonstration of modern-day Jim Crow segregation, Compass only allowed its white employees to serve guests during private catering functions, forcing employees of color to work in the kitchen. White supervisors would take prolonged lunches while sitting at the only table designated for the Company’s employees. Since the Company also prohibited the African-American employees from leaving the premises during lunch breaks, they were forced to eat lunch in the Company’s locker room.
