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...process that began with last spring’s Living Wage Rebellion draws to a close. The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) has compiled its statistics and made its recommendations, and you get to take them or leave them. Here’s why you should leave them...
...unfortunate consequence of the constantly changing expectations of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and The Crimson is that they have downplayed the magnitude of the changes advocated by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) in its report on Harvard’s employment practices...
...gallantly for a “living wage” without ever defining what such a wage would be. It seems so easy to support something called a “living wage,” but unless one has a number based upon principled calculations (which the HCECP was unable to find), then the term “living wage” means nothing...
...athletic illusion, and which insists that it is better to hurl oneself backwards than to stand still.” It may be wishful thinking, but I sincerely hope that our PSLM friends think hard before raising the banner and again hurling themselves onto the barricades. Give the HCECP recommendations a chance to work before describing them as inadequate simply because they do not include a “living wage...
...information gathered by the HCECP, though at times limited, was vital to an informed campus debate on Harvard’s employment policies. The process followed by the committee should serve as a strong precedent for a community role in future University decisionmaking. It should also be used as a model for a permanent standing committee to gather and release data on Harvard’s wage structure, as well as to make non-binding recommendations to the administration for improvements. Harvard already has a permanent committee to make sure that the University meets its responsibilities as a shareholder...