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...PSLM faced a different set of circumstances than the CEC when students began campaigning for a living wage in the late 1990s...
With scant help from the union, workers were left little power at the bargaining table. And so when the students in PSLM wanted to work on wage issues, they decided to take a more active role in setting the agenda...
...leadership...were not folks interested in what was good for the membership,” says PSLM member Benjamin L. McKean ’02. “It appears they were much more interested in collecting dues and all the things that give labor unions...
Without a clear agenda set forth by the union, PSLM soon created its own, focusing on the living wage figure used as a minimum figure by the City of Cambridge in paying its workers...
...call for $10.25 per hour became a powerful rhetorical slogan for the Living Wage Campaign at protests and during the sit-in in particular. PSLM members routinely said that if the University would simply adopt the living wage, the protests would stop...