Word: demanding
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People who work in the Harvard community should be able to live above the poverty line and raise their families here. This conviction drives the Harvard Living Wage Campaign and its single demand for a minimum $10 per hour living wage for every service worker at Harvard. This $10 figure is derived in part from the proposed living wage ordinance for the city of Cambridge. The studies of the National Low-Income Housing Commission, the Women's Leadership Forum and other local agencies estimate wages of closer to $15 per hour necessary to live in the Cambridge/Boston area...
...stories at Harvard, stories of employees' lives and work and struggles. We have dispersed information and garnered a broad base of support from other students, faculty, alumni, faith communities and the city of Cambridge. We have demonstrated nonviolently. Since the campaign's beginnings, many have noted that our single demand and the convictions that drive it are really quite basic, that they reflect a common-sense respect for human dignity and fair employment...
...Harvard administration has crafted its own language to discuss this issue, weaving together careful catch-phrases while avoiding the clear moral imperative of a living wage. Prominent in their argument is "total compensation"--the strange notion that workers should not demand a wage sufficient to live if they receive some package of benefits and time off. But most casual and subcontracted workers do not receive "total compensation" packages. Perhaps Harvard would do well to supplement a living wage with these packages, so its workers and their families could live well above the poverty line. Benefits and a living wage...
...shop in the port city of Inchon is a good place to see some of the changes sweeping Korea. After losing his job as a purchasing manager at a now bankrupt equipment-manufacturing firm, Kim noticed people were spending more on shoe repairs to save money during the turndown. Demand was also rising as paternalistic companies cut back on the coupons for new shoes they used to hand out to employees as part of Korea's benevolent corporate welfare system. So over his wife's objections, Kim found a partner and poured his savings into the shoe shop...
...nation "consumed by conflicts between Muslims and Christians, nationalists and Communists, secessionist provinces and one irate band of paramilitary horsemen." Blaming the U.S. and the West as being unprepared to deal with the effects of the Cold War, Fritz writes that "The West got the world it had demanded, and now it was scrambling to shield itself from it." The Western demand for open markets in the world obviously did not include open movement of populations...