Word: 43c
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classification of all painters' helpers as painters. Painters' helpers earn from 43c. to 86c. less an hour than do painters, and Afro, along with SDS, says that the predominantly black helpers do the same work as the painters without getting paid...
Under the helper program, unskilled or semi-skilled workers learn painter skills over a three year period, at the end of which they become journeymen. Harvard now employs 13 helpers, seven of them black, and 27 journeymen, three of them black. Helpers are paid from 43c to 86c less per hour than journeymen...
...students demanded a change in Harvard's system of dividing its painting crews into "painters helpers" and "journeyman painters." The helpers get from 43c to 86c less per hour than the journeymen because-according to the University-they are still learning the skills of the trade...