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...There are lots of things that could have been better in the decision. We haven’t tried to change the date since the sit-in, any more than we’ve tried to change the committee,” said PSLM member Benjamin L. McKean...
...same goes for PSLM’s call for a formal commitment to creating full-time rather than part-time jobs. According to Benjamin L. McKean ’02, a Crimson editor and prominent member of PSLM, some Harvard workers hold multiple part-time jobs on campus. These and other part-time positions could be combined into full-time jobs that carry increased benefits and a stronger role in collective bargaining. Yet even if Harvard agreed to such a commitment this afternoon, the changeover would take years, with full-time positions created through normal attrition as other part-time...
...It’s not that I begrudge the high pay per se, it’s just that the inequality is troubling,” said Benjamin L. McKean ’02, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement, who is also a Crimson editor. “The same University that compensates [the HMC employees] would view the needs of 1,000 working families it employs as inconsequential...
...group that shuns hierarchy and works through consensus, de facto leaders like Ben McKean ’02 spearheaded a rigorous preparatory program. Everything was ready; the week’s worth of food and water, sleeping bags and other supplies were stored in a sympathetic student organization’s basement headquarters. Contrast this to the 1969 mob takeover of University Hall, where students entered the building with few provisions save for bullhorns and moxy...
...think that the issues are intertwined,” McKean said. “The Harvard Corporation is an obstacle to a genuine Harvard community on a variety of issues, including the living wage...