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...Jamila R. Martin ’07 , one of last week’s hunger strikers, said that Harvard security officers are “basically getting parity to crappy wages...
...Eleven undergraduates began a nine-day hunger strike that ended last Friday after University administrators said they would soon publish an audit examining AlliedBarton’s compliance with Harvard’s Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. The policy requires outside contractors like AlliedBarton to pay their employees wages comparable to those received by in-house, unionized employees who perform similar jobs. Currently, in-house guards are paid 19 cents more than those contracted from AlliedBarton. But students are demanding that Harvard also mandate a “living wage” for the guards, which the SEIU sets...
Pressuring the University to intervene in stalled contract negotiations between subcontractor AlliedBarton and the security guards’ union, the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called a “hunger strike,” and organized daily rallies in Harvard Yard. After two participating students had been hospitalized, the leaders abruptly ended this ritualistic nine-day forced-starvation last Friday, citing that the University had consented to “two key student demands.” In a vain attempt to save face, SLAM greeted these so-called concessions—to audit AlliedBarton and subsequently to meet...
Without discussing the merits of the hunger strikers’ cause, one cannot help but ask: Don’t they have anything better to do? And, given that they launched their progressive crusade during Reading Period, the answer should be a resounding...
...Time: 2:16 p.m. Subject: Re: Re: Re: SLAM Hunger Strikers Unite I am drunk right...