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...HOLLOW HUNGER STRIKE...
After a nine-day-long hunger strike in May, Stand for Security, a student group founded to protest the treatment of Harvard’s subcontracted security guards, secured a meeting with administrators and a reaffirmation of Harvard’s commitment to worker welfare. The hunger strikers’ goals were laudable—it is vital that Harvard treat its workers, including subcontracted workers, with respect and generosity. We wholeheartedly support Stand for Security’s demands, such as the institution of fair grievance procedures, hiring full-time, instead of part-time, workers when possible...
Nevertheless, Stand for Security’s decision to protest the University’s inaction through a hunger strike was a foolish and wildly disproportionate response considering the urgency and magnitude of the problem. Harvard is already a relatively generous employer, with its unambiguously worded Wage Parity Policy ensuring that subcontracted workers are compensated at the same rate as directly employed ones, and that wage levels are above the minimum established as a living wage by the City of Cambridge. Though the implementation of this policy has been called into question, progress on the issue should be achieved through...
...took the press corps to task. "I think it's really the computer that's brought you down to this level. You're no longer interested in what's going on in the cinema. Frankly, let's all go and have lunch." Hmm. Was this disgust talking--or just hunger? SCORE...
...proletariat’s chains are crumbling; the scales of false consciousness have fallen—make no mistake, the workers of the world are uniting and Harvard had better heed the rumblings of revolution. On the heels of a student hunger strike, Harvard’s outsourced security guards have authorized a strike against their employer, AlliedBarton, and this is only the start. As one hospitalized hunger striker put it, “The struggle continues and the actions will escalate.”Yet despite all the bold proclamations, collective shouting, and drum-banging, last week?...