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...wage campaign on campus? Let’s first take our activist friends at their word. Apparently, PSLM had not done enough research before taking over Mass. Hall last spring and have now determined the Cambridge living wage isn’t enough. According to PSLM member Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, “The Cambridge living wage is not a scientifically determined minimum that will suffice in this area.” I tried calling my local “living wage scientist” to ask the same question, but he never returned my call...
...think the wages that were settled on were clearly inadequate to bring janitors out of poverty,” said PSLM member Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04. “I’m disappointed that Harvard continues to refuse to take poverty off the bargaining table...
...Elfenbein said that despite PSLM’s call for a wage floor of $10.25—the living wage established by the City of Cambridge—throughout last spring’s Mass. Hall sit-in, during actual negotiations these past weeks students realized “the numbers we’d been calling for were not sufficient.” Since the sit-in, the living wage increased to $10.68 with inflation...
...Elfenbein was among nine protestors for higher wages arrested for blocking traffic on Mass. Ave. at a demonstration last Tuesday...
...force or threat.” At a recent rally for PSLM, Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools Pedro Noguera was quoted as saying, “if [Summers] wants a peaceful spring, he’ll deal with us now.” PSLM member Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04 has written, “Harvard will have to continue to post police officers outside of Mass. Hall.” Supplemented by the posters we all saw go up recently (“President Summers...We Know Where you Are and We’re Coming...