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...Labor Pains "Will Europe Ever Work?", on Europeans' shifting attitudes about labor and unemployment [Oct. 3], suggested that workers can expect to work harder and longer for no additional pay. But what would employees get without extra money? Food at the supermarket? Gas at the pumps? Part of their mortgage? When corporations are in trouble, top management should be held responsible, including highly paid executives. A salary cut would surely not hurt them. It is true that Europeans have the benefit of a social-welfare system, and it is abused by some lazy people. But for generations, workers have been...
...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) is a group of students whose mission is to “raise awareness of labor issues on campus, support workers and unions, and to show the Harvard administration that workers and students united are a powerful force for change.” Although SLAM was only just recently formed, its members and students just like them have been actively engaged in Harvard labor negotiations since the Progressive Student Labor Movement led the now legendary sit-in of Mass Hall back in the spring...
...these demands can only be fully realized by contextualizing the numbers. Currently, the hourly wage for Harvard’s custodians is between $13.50 and $14.77, depending on their level of experience. Any employee working more than 15 hours per week also receives benefits. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national average wage for service occupations (which include custodial staff...
...demand that we pay our custodians $20 per hour, nearly twice the market wage for their work, seems to be the beginning of a never-ending battle against reality. If we tamper with labor negotiations and cause an artificial increase in the wage, we can expect one of two scenarios to result. The first option, fewer jobs, is decidedly unpalatable, and thus it’s understandable that many students would rally against it. Unfortunately, the other option is an increase in our tuition, which is already enough of a financial burden to any family...
Given those options, it seems difficult to justify campaigning for such an exorbitantly high wage for unskilled labor. Worse yet, the real tragedy is that the Living-wage campaign at Harvard and those like it elsewhere detract from the importance of the minimum wage—the institution towards which the efforts of groups like SLAM should be directed...