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...Thomas’s daughter was a freshman in June 2001 when Massachusetts Hall was taken over by the Progressive Student Labor Movement—better known as PSLM. "It seemed like the old days for a moment," Thomas says, "but it quickly became clear that the students who took over weren’t that angry." He was amazed to discover that some student activists would call their parents—many of whom were once college activists themselves—for advice. Rather than rebel against their parents, as students did in the 1960s and 1970s, they were...
SLAM is also demanding that Harvard increase the portion of full-time jobs to 60 percent of all positions, a commitment made to Harvard janitors in the wake of the 2001 Progressive Students’ Labor Movement (PSLM...
...PSLM, the organization that is now SLAM, took over then-President Neil L. Rudenstine’s office in Mass. Hall to raise wages on campus and to protest the outsourcing of Harvard jobs to private contractors...
...group aimed at reinvigorating the labor movement on campus and are demanding a $20-per-hour living wage for all University janitors.In the midst of a contract renegotiation for Harvard’s janitors, the new Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) succeeds the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)—which successfully led the campaign that brought Harvard workers a guaranteed $10.25 hourly living wage and a number of other improvements in compensation. SLAM has an active membership of about 50 students, according to group organizer Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, and its Facebook group claimed...
SLAM evolved from the now-defunct Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), an activist organization that staged a three week sit-in of Mass. Hall in 2002 and demanded wage increases and benefits for the University’s service employees. The event drew national headlines and prompted the University to review its labor policies...