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...Living Wage Campaign will be handed another defeat. And soon after that a strange thing may happen: without improving the compensation for those who work at Harvard, the University may be able to claim a payroll compliant with the Cambridge Living Wage initiative. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) must make students aware of these machinations and focus attention on the outsourcers as well as Harvard itself...
Outsourcing is the sort of end-run move that keeps members of the PSLM up at night and helps University officials rest easier. Through outsourcing, the University has been able to improve on its statistics, which show that 2.7 percent of full-time employees on the University's payroll are paid less than $10 an hour. But these figures hide the amount of outsourced employees that do janitorial work in some Harvard buildings and that have replaced the guards at the Houses. These workers, employees of UNICCO Service Company and Security Systems Incorporated, respectively, stand side-by-side Harvard payroll...
...what is to be done? The unions are gone and done for, but the remaining jobs on Harvard's payroll--these janitors included--can and must be raised to meet the $10-an-hour level. The PSLM still has much to say, and Friday's rally, with Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 on hand to challenge the University, should perk up ears somewhere. "The University sets an example for us all," the mayor said. "They set an example for businesses, corporations, MIT--everyone looks to this institution." Compliance with the Living Wage Campaign will help, even symbolically, improve town...
...last year we've been embarrassing the administration, for the last year we've been rallying student support, for the last year we've been talking to union members--we're here today to tell Harvard that we won't quit," said PSLM member Stephen N. Smith...
...PSLM members said threats of outsourcing and a faculty task force created last spring are attempts by the administration to "silence" protests, but they vowed to continue their efforts...