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...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) rally drew hundreds to Holyoke Center on Friday to support a $20 living wage for Harvard’s janitors. With the janitors?? union contract expiring on Nov. 15, SLAM members said they hoped to drum up support for the janitors going into negotiations for a new contract. Several janitors were in attendance along with representatives from their union—Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615—and members from various progressive groups. The protest also included local community leaders. Speaking from a bullhorn, Cambridge City Councillor Brian P. Murphy...
William J. Murphy, Harvard’s director of labor and employee relations, declined to comment last week on janitors?? wages because negotiations are still ongoing...
...compensation] situation at Harvard is disturbing,” said Lauren Jacobs, organizing director of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615, the janitors?? union at Harvard. “Many janitors have to work two or three jobs just to make ends meet,” she said...
...achievement of a living wage for Harvard’s janitors, said to SLAM member Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, who is also a Crimson editor. “Right now we’re counting down to justice on Nov. 15, the day the janitors?? contract is being negotiated,” said Gould-Wartofsky. “SLAM has workers’ backs this fall. They’re demanding jobs that guarantee dignity and respect and that means a living wage, fair benefits, and full-time work.” Harvard janitors?...
...worst, Harvard puts the whims of its Corporation before the needs of that community. Such was the operative principle in the late 1990s, as the University fueled a race to the bottom, outsourcing service jobs and slashing janitors?? wages by more than 13 percent...