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Some of the supposed accomplishments of the sit-in, renegotiations of some workers’ contracts and a moratorium on out-sourcing, are things the University would have agreed to without the sit-in, especially since the moratorium doesn’t even apply to the entire University...
Additionally, the University has issued a moratorium on new outsourcing until the committee issues its report...
...administration completely backed off from its threat to reclassify more than 100 of our dining hall workers at the Business School. They agreed to increase access to its English as a Second Language program and to immediately consider health care premiums for low-wage workers. Harvard agreed to a moratorium on outsourcing directly hired employees to subcontractors—and outsourcing has been the primary way the University has slashed wages and benefits for years. Alumni have donated more than $10,000 to the Harvard Workers Center, which provides free legal aid and support to Harvard’s poverty...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) occupation of Massachusetts Hall has ended. The administration has agreed to create a new committee composed of diverse interests to reexamine the issue on a clear timetable, and it will institute a moratorium on outsourcing until the committee returns its report. We congratulate both sides on a compromise that not long ago seemed impossible, and we look forward to renewed progress on the issue of a living wage...
...administration would never have granted a living wage as a payoff to protesters; the creation of a broadly representative committee, the moratorium on all outsourcing and the revisiting of an issue that three weeks ago the University had considered closed perhaps represent the best possible outcome the campus could have hoped for. We are very glad that PSLM has chosen to continue its fight for a living wage outside Mass. Hall. Now is the time for students to redouble their efforts to make the case to the committee and the administration that Harvard should pay its workers what they deserve...