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...Living Wage Campaign held another rally--featuring speakers Cornel R. West '74 and Cambridge Vice Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio--as part of its continuing efforts to convince Harvard to adopt a $10 minimum "Living Wage" for all University workers. Though the rally did not produce any guarantees from the administration, it did show the increased presence of the campaign, which had obtained the support of about 100 faculty members and the support of a Cambridge City Council ordinance. "This is the most significant wave of student activism since the 1960s," West said. "It shatters the stereotypes that young students...
Scrubbing bathroom floors, sweeping corners and vacuuming rugs, the workers earn a minimum of $8.85 per hour. One 40-hour week of work for those 390 employees costs the College's Houses and Yard operations a total of $138,060. Typically, however, those employees work significantly longer hours, racks up higher costs for Harvard in overtime wages...
Although their rally was organized by the Living Wage Campaign, the demonstrators did not call for a $10 minimum wage--most security guards already earn more than $10 an hour--but instead focused on the issue of the University's negotiating tactics with its unions...
...accomplishment for a campus group. In March of this year, after more than a year of negotiations on sweatshop concerns, Harvard officials agreed to disclose publicly all information relating to the licensed manufacture of insignia clothing. Also, the University agreed in principle to support a code of conduct specifying minimum working conditions to which factories must adhere in order to produce Harvard apparel. With other colleges around the country making similar efforts, Hennefeld hopes the policy shift will make a difference in the industry's working...
Scrubbing bathroom floors, sweeping corners and vacuuming rugs, the workers earn a minimum of $8.85 per hour. One 40-hour week of work for those 390 employees costs the College's Houses and Yard operations a total of $138,060. Typically, however, those employees work significantly longer hours, racking up higher costs for Harvard in overtime wages...