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...picket-wielding, slogan-chanting crowd of 60 marched from the Holyoke Center to the Biological Labs on Divinity Avenue yesterday in a rally to support four Latino Harvard workers. The four employees were given layoff notices in October which were later rescinded by the University for the time being. The workers, who were also present at the rally, allege that their intended layoffs from their jobs washing cages at the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) department were motivated by race. “Harvard, listen! We are in the fight!” the protesters chanted in Spanish. The lunchtime...
...convinced me to come to Harvard,” says freshman Diana C. Robles ’10. “Her recruiting methods have made my first few months so amazing.” Because costs of travel and language barriers might prevent the parents of some Latino students from coming to Cambridge, Urzua established the first ever holiday dinner in Los Angeles last December to “bring Harvard to them.” And Urzua isn’t just interested in off-campus Latino issues: in the past four years, Urzua has revamped RAZA, Harvard?...
Students, University employees, and union representatives met last night for a community forum that aimed “to address racism in the Harvard workplace.” The Harvard Coalition for Respect and Equality for Workers, the Student Labor Action Movement, Fuerza Latina, and the Latino Men’s Collective gathered in Emerson Hall for the event...
...Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology rescinded its layoffs of four Latino workers late last month after the workers charged that they were fired from their animal cage-cleaning jobs on account of their ethnicity...
Those four workers, accompanied by six other Latino employees, took the stage to describe what they say are specific instances of racism experienced on the job. They said that Spanish had been banned in the workplace and that a coworker had sprayed their food with Fantastik cleaner...