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Tompkins came from a family of Harvard dining services employees??€”her mother is a cook at the Cronkhite Dining Hall and her brother was a longtime manager at the Quad Dining Halls...
Friday’s celebration—thought up by store employees??€”featured the sale of greeting cards designed by 10 members of the 40-person staff, which includes all types of artists from painters to poets...
...course, in the real world employees??€™ choices aren’t so simple or clear-cut because the economic benefits to any new knowledge are uncertain. Low-skilled workers who know little English also have non-financial incentives for wanting to develop these skills, such as wanting to be able to read with their children or converse more easily. However, the chance to earn a higher wage at the end of a class is, without doubt, a serious motivating factor that would be reduced in the presence of a living wage...
Doubtless there is truth in the idea that Harvard’s mission depends on all its employees??€”from you to the janitors who clean your office. But to argue that this concept justifies HCECP’s specific proposals is laughably farfetched. HCECP essentially wants you to believe that Harvard’s academic aims are compromised because cashiers at the Greenhouse make less than $10.83 per hour. Please. I suppose, then, that once Harvard’s least skilled and (forgive my frankness) most replaceable workers get raises, we’ll see Nobel Prizes...
...terms and conditions of employment. However, we do not believe that the living wage should be a bargaining chip in union negotiations. Harvard’s workers should never be placed in a position of trading away other benefits in order to obtain minimally adequate wages. Harvard should safeguard employees??€™ living standards by adopting a living wage...