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Eight Harvard students participated in a two-day “solidarity” fast of their own, trekking out to Burlington Friday night for a post-fast rally. Jamila R. Martin ’07, a member of the Student Labor Action Movement who fasted last week, said SEIU 615 has been trying to organize janitors in the city for a while, but the anti-union sentiment in the area has made it very difficult...
...that it would no longer be being made in,” he said. “It would be possible that those jobs would disappear, and we have a concern for the local workers in that case,” he went on.Harvard Student Labor Action Movement leader Jamila R. Martin ’07 questioned the University’s commitment to the consortium’s mission. “It was basically signing on without really signing on,” she said of the school’s 2003 move.Responding to Harvard?...
...earlier this semester, said they would take the ideas expressed by students at the solution session and find ways of making them work at Harvard. “We need to evaluate our position, evaluate the power we have, and think about we can do,” said Jamila R. Martin ’07. “Especially since we are at Harvard.” Gabriela Pena ’08 praised Harvard’s treatment of undocumented students. “I know a lot of undocumented students,” she said...
...Jamila R. Martin ’07—a leader of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which is currently waging its own campaign against Coke—said Michigan’s decision “teaches us a lesson...
...company intimidates the workers, cuts their hours, or delays extra pay for overtime. Despite the alleged threats, Solano is determined and confident. “We need the union and, trust me, sooner or later, we’re going to have it.” SLAM leader Jamila R. Martin ’07 said that the combination of the anti-Coke advocacy and the pressure against AlliedBarton at last night’s event would help students to see these two efforts as part of “one struggle.” —Staff writer...