Word: laborer
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...organization is also planning an upcoming "fashion show" to continue to pressure the University. The event will also publicize poor labor practices by Nike...
Amidst musical slide shows and poetic riffs from Cantabrigian storyteller "Brother Blue," the Fifth Annual Peace and Justice Awards presented by the Cambridge Peace Commission recognized the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) campus efforts last night...
PSLM' s efforts to combat the use of sweatshop labor in the production of University apparel over the last year were highlighted during a slide show presentation that referred to the March "Rally for Justice." Event organizers also praised the group's continuing efforts urging the University to disclose factory locations that produce Harvard paraphernalia...
Jonah G. Westerman is a first-year living in Wigglesworth Hall. Benjamin L. McKean '02 is a social studies concentrator in Cabot House. The writers are members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement and the Living Wage Campaign...
Harvard's resistance to paying a living wage is part of a larger effort by Harvard administrators to subject directly hired, unionized workers to terrible and demoralizing working conditions in order to replace them with cheaper, subcontracted labor--pushing wages down as the endowment goes up. For example, Harvard forced its security guards to work for nearly five years without a contract, by refusing to negotiate in good faith. Harvard's disrespectful treatment degraded the jobs of its unionized security guards so thoroughly that, this fall, roughly half of them decided that they would rather accept a buy-out than...