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...Eleven undergraduates began a nine-day hunger strike that ended last Friday after University administrators said they would soon publish an audit examining AlliedBarton’s compliance with Harvard’s Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. The policy requires outside contractors like AlliedBarton to pay their employees wages comparable to those received by in-house, unionized employees who perform similar jobs. Currently, in-house guards are paid 19 cents more than those contracted from AlliedBarton. But students are demanding that Harvard also mandate a “living wage” for the guards, which the SEIU sets...
...stalled contract negotiations between subcontractor AlliedBarton and the security guards’ union, the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called a “hunger strike,” and organized daily rallies in Harvard Yard. After two participating students had been hospitalized, the leaders abruptly ended this ritualistic nine-day forced-starvation last Friday, citing that the University had consented to “two key student demands.” In a vain attempt to save face, SLAM greeted these so-called concessions—to audit AlliedBarton and subsequently to meet about labor practices—with...
...nine remaining students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages and benefits offered to Harvard’s outsourced security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon...
...nine remaining students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages and benefits offered to Harvard's outsourced security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon...
...nine students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages paid to Harvard’s security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon...