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Weisbard said that the living wage campaign advanced to the sit-in because the powers that were didn’t listen to PSLM??s early protests...
SLAM’s co-founder, Tufts senior Iris Halpern, is a veteran of the PSLM??s sit-in in Mass. Hall...
...year ago, in response to PSLM??s calls for a living wage, a high-ranking committee of faculty members and administrators released a 100-page report recommending that the University enlarge the scope of worker benefits, including health insurance, education and access to campus facilities, but not raise wages...
...About 150 students and a dozen members of the media attended PSLM??s first rally of the year, held the day after the University announced Summers as the president-elect...
...more fruitful strategy, however, was PSLM??s effective advocacy and solicitation of support outside the building. The protests drew the attention of Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, all of whom spoke outside Mass. Hall. Other members of Congress and of the community spoke out in favor of the living wage. The sustained media effort brought the campaign to the attention of the national press and made it an inescapable issue...