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SLAM To Fast for Security Guards (April 24, 2007): SLAM announces that its members will begin a fast—which could escalate into a hunger strike of “indefinite lengths and proportions”—in an attempt to influence the negotiations of Harvard’s security guards with their employer AlliedBarton...
...International Union reach an agreement permitting the guards to organize for the first time since the University outsourced their jobs two years prior, a change that signaled a hard-fought victory for the guards and student activists. CORRECTION: The original online version of the story “Second Hunger Striker Hospitalized” and an accompanying photo caption incorrectly stated that student protesters had held a vigil outside the home of Interim President Derek C. Bok. In fact, the students’ vigil took place at 33 Elmwood Ave., the currently vacant official residence of Harvard?...
...University will meet today with student protesters to discuss their demand that Harvard intervene for higher wages in a dispute between outside security contractor AlliedBarton and guards hired by the firm for Harvard’s campuses. The meeting comes a week into a hunger strike involving 11 undergraduates, one of whom was hospitalized yesterday for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels...
...It’s exciting that the administration is responding, that we’re definitely getting through to them, but we haven’t won anything yet,” said Jamila R. Martin ’07, a hunger striker who presented a signed petition with the strikers’ demands yesterday afternoon to William Murphy, the director of labor and employee relations...
...Early yesterday morning, hunger striker Javier J. Castro ’09 was admitted to Mount Auburn Hospital and given intravenous saline solution to bring his sodium levels up to a minimum healthy level, according to a statement released by the Harvard Stand for Security Coalition yesterday afternoon...