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...support a living wage for all of Harvard’s workers. But we cannot condone the recent tactics by which the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) has pursued its ends. The occupation of administrative offices in Massachusetts Hall was inappropriate and will likely prove ineffective, and it has set back the cause of a living wage at Harvard...
...workers. The University’s current wage structure allows individuals to live in poverty despite long hours providing students and professors with essential services, and the expansion of benefits announced last May is no substitute for a living wage. We agree with the city of Cambridge and PSLM that a $10.25 an hour is an appropriate wage for this area, and it is indefensible for Harvard to maintain its policy of hiding its low wages through subcontracting jobs...
...firmly oppose the most recent method by which the protestors have sought to achieve their goals. PSLM has diverged from its past practices by engaging in a protest disruptive to University life. The coercive nature of the protest was made clear when administrators were effectively prevented from making use of their offices. A private office of a Corporation member was invaded. And with its calls of “No justice, no quiet,” PSLM has also disrupted the lives of those unlucky students who reside in Massachusetts Hall and are forced to share the building with...
PSLM’s previous practices served the campus far better. During last year’s pre-frosh weekend, PSLM tabled outside Byerly Hall, handed out fliers to perspective students, and lined the walls of the admissions office in a way that let pre-frosh and administrators walk past freely. Aside from some noise, the action was generally nondisruptive and was designed to avoid, rather than create, confrontation. The same was true of PSLM’s longstanding efforts to engage in dialogue with University administrators, to inform and mobilize alumni for their cause, to obtain endorsements from more...
...less open to PSLM’s concerns does not justify coercive protest against it. These previous moves sparked debate about the living wage in a way the sit-in has not; now, the debate focuses only on PSLM’s error of judgment. With the sit-in, PSLM has hardened the administration’s resolve. The group has squandered its public support and has turned against it many students of whom the vast majority support a living wage...