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...University club, its members united with workers and took up several causes at once, choosing their battles democratically in group meetings. By the end of their formative period, they had voted to officially oppose the war in Iraq, support pro-choice activism and promote a “progressive labor agenda” at Harvard...
...Socialist Alternative has not always played such a central role in the labor movement on campus...
...Socialist Alternative builds its campus presence through its members’ involvement in the No Layoffs Campaign—holding over half a dozen public protests since the fall—it has crowded out the formerly ascendant Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
PSLM made national headlines in 2001 when it spearheaded a three-week sit-in of Mass. Hall that prompted a review of the University’s labor policies. But since PSLM’s Living Wage Campaign—a three-year movement begun in 1998 which culminated with 50 PSLM members occupying Mass. Hall—came to an informal end, the organization has nearly vanished from the labor frontlines...
Price, retiring after almost 20 years at Harvard, has been serving as associate vice president since 1996. During her time here, she oversaw union negotiations and worked to expand employee education and skill training. Price helped guide changes to the University’s labor policies, working with the recommendations of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, which former University president Neil L. Rudenstine assembled in response to the Living Wage Campaign’s 2001 occupation of Mass. Hall...