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More than a month after Harvard janitors ratified a contract to increase their hourly wages to at least $11.35, roughly 50 members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and supporters crowded outside Holyoke Center yesterday to call for the University to speed up implementation of the wage hikes...
Amidst sounds of bullhorns, chanted slogans and makeshift drums, PSLM members said subcontracted janitors had yet to receive their negotiated wage increases...
...We’ve asked these subcontractors to pay the negotiated wages and they still haven’t,” said former PSLM member and current SEIU employee Aaron D. Bartley...
...yesterday’s protest, PSLM members also said workers who have been active with labor issues in the recent negotiations are being intimidated by their supervisors...
...While PSLM believes that it is fighting for a world in which everyone is prosperous, history has shown that the most prosperous nations are those in which property rights are protected universally. Today, most of the world’s population remains in desperate poverty specifically because there are very few places where private property is protected against arbitrary confiscations. Labor advocates take our own economic and social system for granted, assuming that the prodigious machinery of American industry will continue producing through every form of regulation and domination. They are wrong. What the workers of the world need...