Word: decentering
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...really strong race," captain Jason Craw said. "We got off to a decent start. It was a heartening win because every time Jon Cahill called a move, we moved...
...demonstrators assert that all Harvard workers’ wages should be high enough to enable full-time workers to afford to live within reasonable commuting distance from the workplace at a decent standard of living, so that they need not work a second or even third job just to pay for food, shelter and clothing; and that all Harvard workers should get health insurance and other regular benefits. They also assert that Harvard’s failure to meet these standards for wages and benefits is unjustifiable...
...Harvard causing harm or hardship, or exploiting some of its workers? Arguably it is, even though it does not force anyone to take its jobs; for if the wages are not enough to support a decent standard of living, the worker is faced with the choice of either trying to find a better-paying job elsewhere in the area, which will not be possible if Harvard is indeed paying no less than other employers, or working a second or third job if they are able. For many it is a choice between the hardships of poverty and those of overworking...
...their voices. Harvard’s decision to pay all its workers a living wage—and I’m confident that our administrators will reach such a decision—will result from their taking the ethical high ground. Sometimes it takes a sit-in for decent, ethical leaders to recognize where that high ground...
...conditions require improvement; we have all concluded that improvements are necessary. Poverty wages constitute a campus crisis, heretofore invisible to some, that must be addressed as soon as possible. At heart, this is not about people sitting in at a building; this is about Harvard workers being denied a decent standard of living. We cannot lose sight of the immediate, continuing and omnipresent impact Harvard’s poverty wages have upon workers. Their concerns and suffering cannot be held in abeyance while Harvard undertakes a study...