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Over 100 workers are already striking and nearly 100 medical school workers are set to walk out later this week, according to Eric J. Brakken, the organizing director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 11, a subset of the union that represents the Miami area...
Though the strikers and SEIU do not have specific monetary demands, they are “calling for the university to adopt a policy that it’s only going to hire responsible contractors who obey the law and pay a living wage,” Brakken said...
Strikers and labor activists are using recent victories at Harvard as a “talking point,” Brakken said...
...Harvard is an example that things can change,” Brakken said, “that the people can win.” —Staff writer Benjamin L. Weintraub can be reached at bweintr@fas.harvard.edu...
...Those standards [to which Ward agreed] were pretty much the strongest stuff that was passed in the country, and is being used as a model for other universities," says Erik J. Brakken, a MASC member who graduated from the UW this month...
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