Word: labors
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...Harvard Living Wage Campaign have fought for a $10 per hour wage for all Harvard employees, because many full-time workers currently also qualify for food stamps and welfare and because they cannot afford to live where they work. Mince words if you must, but Harvard imports cheap labor from ghettos in Roxbury, Chelsea and Dorchester...
...living wage will not result in significant labor cutbacks, despite arguments to the contrary. Romeo cleans the dining hall by himself; Joe alone watches the Science Center. They cannot be downsized. Most employees at Harvard work in the service sector where the labor market demand is fairly inelastic, and so a living wage does not risk their jobs...
Higher wages also lead to lower turnover, lower absenteeism, and higher morale-windfalls that offset increased labor costs; in the long run, the University might even save money. Cities that have passed living wage ordinances have not experienced the capital flight and labor retrenchment predicted by wide-eyed libertarian Cassandras...
After Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis'68 delivered a welcoming speech on Friday, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) took over the stage, calling for a $10 minimum wage for all Harvard workers...
Irish European Union (EU) Commissioner Pdraig Flynn and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich spoke yesterday at the Center for European Studies about strategies for improving economic conditions in Europe...