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...Labor activists staged a “teach-in” targeting Harvard’s ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services...
...Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, who studies labor economics, said that this trend is neither new nor surprising...
...junior Liza J. Alwes, who is a member of the student labor group Students Towards a New Democracy, said the janitors’ wages—which she said vary between $6.40 and $7.00 an hour and do not include health or pension benefits—are unacceptable...
Strikers and labor activists are using recent victories at Harvard as a “talking point,” Brakken said...
Though Student Labor Action Movement leader Adaner Usmani ’08 said that since Harvard’s workers belong to the SEIU and Miami’s workers do not, the schools’ situations are not analogous. He called the worker-student collaboration “heartening...