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“A strike authorization will show the strength of the ranks in the kitchen,” Co-Chief Shop Steward and Adams House Chef Edward B. Childs said. “It will show that conditions are intolerable.
Childs sits on a large contract committee with 60 members from all the dining halls. They have been working since the summer to create a new contract.
“We have to bring it all to the workers to say: ‘Is that what we want to ask?’ We have to make sure that we’re representing the membership,” Childs said.
“[Harvard] has us in a weaker position but the sit-in makes us stronger,” Childs said.
A few students have asked whether we are simply engaging in heroics—whether ego, not issue, drives our action. The administration’s paternalism answers this question. Students have freedoms and securities within the University that janitors and other low-wage workers do not. Thus, we have...