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What lends Judevine its attractiveness are the people who work hard for their “two-and-a-quarter an hour?? then sit down to break bread at Jerry’s, the local cheap food joint attached to the gas station. Their lives, remarkable for their modest strength in the face of lower middle-class adversity, are exposed in the sort of richly layered detail that is rare on stage...
...late February, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reached a contract settlement with Harvard that will pay all janitors at least $11.35 an hour??although PSLM members said they would have encouraged the union to hold out for a better contract...
Late last month, the Service Employees International Union Local 254 and Harvard University finally agreed on a proposal that would raise the wages of all University janitors to a minimum of $11.35 per hour??a figure that will increase incrementally until it reaches $13.50 by 2005. Although we must commend the workers and all others who have been involved in this painstaking ordeal, we cannot quickly decree that victory and justice have come to Harvard. This whole process seems to suffer from a rather interesting paradox: There are more students than workers at Living Wage rallies yet more...
Late Wednesday night, SEIU and the University agreed on a proposal that would pay all Harvard janitors at least $11.35 per hour??a wage that will rise...
After three weeks at the table, Harvard’s negotiators’ most recent offer was for $11 per hour??a miserly 15 cents more than their first offer—and nothing in terms of affordable health insurance. The Harvard negotiators present their offers with disingenuous and patronizing claims to having “worked really hard” and “listened to workers’ needs.” Yet these offers have proven unacceptable to the dozen workers on the union’s bargaining team who know that their families need...