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...students prepared to gather in the Yard Tuesday for a sixth day of a hunger strike in support of higher wages for security guards, the protesters announced that one of the strikers had been hospitalized for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels...
...posting on the Stand for Security Web log Tuesday afternoon said Castro was continuing to fast. "Javier is on Day 6 of the hunger strike," the posting signed by Michael Gould-Wartofsky '07 said. "Although he has received saline through an IV, he has refused food and as of right now is continuing with the hunger strike...
...University maintains that it will not intervene in the contract negotiations between the security guards' union and AlliedBarton, the subcontractor that employs Harvard's guards. Eleven students began a hunger strike Thursday in an effort to get the University to pressure AlliedBarton to meet their demands for higher wages, steady work schedules, and other benefits...
...humans deserve to be treated with dignity and to be fairly compensated for their labor, regardless of its nature. A hunger strike demonstrates the appropriate degree of urgency in the situation...
...radar. Perhaps most easily taken for granted, however, is the basic safety that we all enjoy—the safety provided by the security guards employed by AlliedBarton Security Services (AlliedBarton), to which Harvard outsources most of its security needs. Recently, student members of Stand For Security began a hunger strike to call attention to the plight of AlliedBarton security workers on campus, who unionized under the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) last December and are now negotiating their first contract through SEIU. While we agree with many of Stand For Security’s aims and its general spirit...