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Nine supporters of higher wages for Harvard’s janitors??including two undergraduates—were arrested for blocking traffic during a carefully choreographed protest in front of the Holyoke Center yesterday afternoon...
SEIU hopes to influence Harvard to raise janitors?? base wages to $14 an hour in today’s contract negotiations at the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street, union officials have said. The negotiations are in their sixth week, and the two sides have come to little agreement on new wage or benefit provisions, despite resolving many other issues, representatives of both sides have confirmed...
Although this will be the sixth week of negotiations between Harvard and the janitors?? union, PSLM organizers said this week’s session is particularly important because a number of janitors will “risk arrest” in a protest that will escalate the controversy and heighten awareness...
...Harvard’s negotiating team has refused to raise janitors?? wages to the relative levels they were at ten years ago (or to the levels of other area universities) and they have offered no proposals for making health insurance more affordable as the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies report suggested they should. Despite President Lawrence H. Summers’ numerous statements about showing workers the respect that they deserve, his negotiators have offered them only nickels and dimes. No matter how clearly they explain what kind of wages and benefits they need to live...
...easy for us, as Harvard students, to dismiss the need for public protests as a supplement to intellectual discussion. When we pass by a “Justice for Janitors?? protest, we sometimes wonder, “Don’t these people have good enough arguments to rationally debate the issue instead of making all this noise and taking their cause to the streets?” This is essentially what former University President Neil L. Rudenstine was saying in his statement during last spring’s sit-in, which he e-mailed to every student...