Word: hungering
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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...
...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...
Nonetheless, students participating in the hunger strike said they felt upbeat...
...days into a hunger strike aimed at pressuring Harvard to influence negotiations over security guards' contracts, the University has agreed to honor the student protesters' request for a meeting. Earlier in the day, 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...