Word: coerceã
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Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02-’03 claims that a group of janitors cannot “somehow coerce?? Harvard because they do not have $18 billion or a media bureau. This statement ignores that the janitors are not alone; they have the force of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) behind them...
First, the oft-repeated idea that janitors and their supporters could somehow “coerce?? an $18 billion corporation that owns its own police force, legal and media bureaus and the very land they walk on, is clearly ludicrous. Janitors, students, faculty, and community members have no representation on the Harvard Corporation and vastly fewer resources at their disposal; they do not have the power to “force” Harvard to adopt fairer labor policies or even to force it to negotiate in good faith. In fact, the only significant limit on the Harvard...
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