Word: antonio
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...Soon, students trickle back to the House to nap or to attend sports practices, a cappella rehearsals and Phillips Brooks House Association meetings. After cleaning, sweeping, mopping and incinerating, Antonio finishes shoveling the courtyard as a light snow begins to fall. The returning "children" remind Antonio of his own brood. His daughter (age 13) and two sons (ages 8 and 6) will imminently arrive home from Dorchester public schools and fend for themselves until Antonio returns...
...After eight hours of janitorial work at Harvard, Antonio has only a few hours of respite and family time before he leaves for his night job cleaning an office building in South Boston. Antonio's wife, an employee of a different sub-contracting janitorial company, will return home later in the evening...
...UNICCO pays Antonio $9.05 for each hour that he, literally, cleans up after us. And, this week, Antonio's pay is up for public debate with the outpouring of protests, posters and rallies organized by the Living Wage Campaign. Antonio, along with his fellow UNICCO workers who vacuum our hallowed halls, the dining staff who serve the "honorable" first-year law students their supper, joins the cashiers at Loker Commons and the Greenhouse as the collective victims of an unlivable wage...
...Antonio shrugs nonchalantly when asked about the 95 cents that he stands to gain if the campaign succeeds. The undergraduate and graduate activists spearheading the Living Wage Campaign are pushing Harvard to require that UNICCO raise the wages of all workers to $10, an amount that has been designated by the city of Cambridge as "the minimum living wage...
...Doesn't matter," says Antonio sheepishly, referring to his sleepless nights, long commutes and lack of family time. Antonio and fellow Harvard workers' apathy contrasts dramatically with the surge of activity that has been mobilized on their behalf...