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Harvard’s vice president for human resources has responded to the current hunger strike for Harvard’s security guards by arguing that “Harvard has no legal role in this process” (Harvard Will Not Intervene, May 7, 2007). In that very same article however, she acknowledges that “AlliedBarton is fully subject to the Wage and Benefit Parity Policy” Harvard adopted after a sit-in for a living wage...
While I admire the idealism of students who have embarked on a hunger strike to support the demands of Harvard’s security guards, I think the protest is misguided. Basic economics dictates that the more each worker is paid, the fewer workers will be hired. Raising the wages of security guards who already have jobs could shut the door on the poor and unemployed...
...even the rich face trade-offs, and spending more on security guards could mean spending less on something else that may be of far greater value to the university—and the poor. Furthermore, at a university where so many avenues exist to register protest, embarking on a hunger strike is rash and self-destructive, and encouraging others to do so is cynical and manipulative...
...nine students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages paid to Harvard’s security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon...
...students demanded that the University issue a statement affirming its commitment to its workers, and asked for the formation of an independent committee of workers, students, faculty, and administrators to provide a short-term assessment of AlliedBarton's wages and benefits on campus, according to hunger striker J. Claire Provost...