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...protests last spring to a shared and earnest desire to improve the economic conditions of Harvard’s low-wage employees. The committee’s recommendations are sound, and Summers should move promptly to implement them. However, the president should also move on his own initiative to adopt an additional safeguard: an annually adjusted wage floor that guarantees an adequate standard of living to all of Harvard’s workers...
...external measures of need. Harvard has the responsibility to ensure that its employees are not impoverished. In his statement reacting to the HCECP report, Summers expressed a concern for the welfare and living standards of Harvard’s service workers. This concern should lead him not only to adopt the committee’s recommendations, but also to adopt a policy of paying wages that allow employees living in the Boston area to afford the basic necessities of life...
...committee called on Harvard to adopt a code of workplace conduct and urged Summers to issue a “strong” statement about workplace expectations...
...remain convinced that the only way to ensure that wages will keep pace with the cost of living is to adopt a living wage policy,” McKean wrote in an addendum to the report...
Cambridge community members demonstrated overwhelming support of the plan, introduced by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, during the time reserved for public comment, urging the Committee to adopt it without delay...