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...pressure tactics PSLM used were instrumental in winning concessions at the negotiating table. No doubt the ratio of 5 students to 3 labor organizers to 1 janitor arrested in their choreographed mock civil disobedience struck fear into the university...
...wake of this settlement, the future of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) seems up in the air. With workers having won wage increases higher than the living wage standard called for during the sit-in, some question why the group even continues to exist...
...doubt our activist friends will brush off the tired argument that a few colleges like MIT or Wellesley pay over $14 per hour, so why not Harvard? Harvard has the most money, so Harvard should pay the most. But PSLM sees the world with tunnel vision. They always leave out that in comparisons to other Boston area schools, Harvard is in the middle of the pack, not the bottom as they pretend...
...increased revenue, higher fees or tuition. Collective bargaining is the appropriate mechanism for arriving at a contract, not limits pre-determined by excited students. Apparently, collective bargaining worked this time since the university expressed satisfaction and the janitors’ union ratified it by a 270-8 vote. But PSLM member Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’03 insists, “It could be said that whereas workers accepted the wages in the sense they agreed to the contract, by no means did workers think that those wages were fair or adequate.” It could also...
Last spring PSLM exposed some shameful University bargaining practices. The campus community owes them thanks for that. The problems were fixed. Last spring it was possible to admire PSLM for their dedication to what they saw as a moral cause: the single policy option of the Cambridge living wage. Now Elfenbein says, “I think it was a mistake for students to fight for the Cambridge living wage as a moral standard for Harvard.” Can PSLM ever be taken seriously again...