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...about students standing up for the people who stand up for us everyday,” he said. “This protest is about the power of students and workers united together to achieve victories that they could not win alone.” According to Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08, a member of the SLAM leadership, the goal of the protest was to bring attention to the janitors’ situation. “We’re trying to build momentum, trying to raise awareness of the issue, and trying to put pressure...
...Labor issues and union organizing is something that a lot of Harvard students are not familiar with,” said Alyssa M. Aguilera ‘08, a SLAM member. “[There have been] so many new faces, so many new people in the meetings...
...Aguilera said one hundred people signed a petition yesterday outlining SLAM’s demands, including an end to outsourcing in-house Harvard jobs. Aguilera said SLAM will deliver the petition to administrators next Friday...
...alone,” said Shuo “Jim” Huang ’09. “There are a lot of people who are sympathetic to the cause but don’t know the intricacies of labor organizing,” Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08 said. “We wanted to create a week of teach-ins to get people involved in what’s going on and turn sympathy into action.” At last night’s meeting, SLAM members discussed the adoption of a card...
...also a Crimson editor.A wage of $10.25 per hour when the sit-in began, in April 2001, was equivalent to $11.38 in August 2005, adjusted for inflation of 11 percent over that period, according to inflationdata.com.SLAM’s leadership—which includes Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08, Andrew H. Golis ’06, and Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, as well as Gould-Wartofsky—says that the group’s demands come from the workers themselves.“Part of the broader ideology behind the Student Labor Action...