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...Bartley's Burger Cottage, not the nouvelle cuisine Harvest...
Candidate statement: "I know the value of hard work...I prefer action to talk, plainspeak to prevarication, Bartley's Burger Cottage to the Harvest. In the last six years, I founded a new city fund for the purchase of open space, established the city's first extended school day program, initiated a major tree and flower-planting program...
...Aaron D. Bartley, a member of the PSLM in his second year at Harvard Law School, agreed with the figures UNICCO gave but said in an e-mail "They failed to mention that almost all their workers are part-time (not by choice), that part-timers don't have health benefits." He also said that UNICCO workers have told him that they don't take vacations because they are scared they'll lose their jobs. These employees in forced part-time status not only do not receive a living wage but also have no way to express their grievances without...
...Living Wage Campaign does not view UNICCO's employment practices as satisfactory," Bartley said. "We're demanding a $10 minimum in addition to a set of minimal health benefits." Though important for the worker's overall well-being, benefits cannot be compared to wages, Offner said. She stressed that a large number of workers only receive wages and those who receive benefits shouldn't be penalized since, as she put it, "no matter how many dental appointments Harvard gives its workers, you can't pay rent in dental appointments...
...This is a good official vote of support," Bartley said. "It becomes part of the public debate...