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...janitors’ contract is only the beginning of a much stronger student-labor movement on campus. PSLM has not come out of these negotiations placated, but instead is ready to expand its vision and fight even harder for a more just campus...
...hour, basically settling with the union for the same wages proposed in their unofficial offer before the demonstration. This outcome shows the strength of the University’s resistance to change. Most janitors feel that $11.35 per hour is not enough money, as do many PSLM members and other activists. Under the new contract, some janitors, denied a raise for the last six years, still have to wait two or three years to get one. Many felt that the powerful student-labor movement we have built here could have won a lot more from Harvard. We will now work...
...immediate first goal of PSLM is to help security guards and dining service workers win decent wages in their current or upcoming renegotiations of wages. There are still hundreds of security guards and dining service workers at Harvard earning below a “living wage” as defined by the City of Cambridge, which on March 1 was increased to $11.11 per hour. The guards have not received a raise in several years...
...PSLM has never just been about achieving a living wage. PSLM is an organization dedicated to the principle of solidarity between workers and students as we struggle for a more just and democratic University and society. The living wage campaign is only one form of this solidarity. Now the goal is to use the achievements of the living wage campaign, especially the increased consciousness about workers’ issues both among students and workers, to form an independent militant organization of students and workers to fight for more labor rights on this campus and throughout Cambridge. A sustained organization...
Focusing on workers around the world, the PSLM anti-sweatshop campaign, in the form of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops, is still fighting to get the University to join the Workers’ Rights Consortium, an independent monitoring organization to which more than 90 colleges and universities belong. There is an enormous, growing world-wide movement against the excesses of corporate globalization, and the struggles for living wages and against sweatshops are all a part of that movement...