Word: pslm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though union leaders called the agreement a victory, PSLM members issued a statement Thursday saying Harvard’s final offer of $11.35—while an improvement—was still “unresponsive to [janitors’] expressions of need...
...think the wages that were settled on were clearly inadequate to bring janitors out of poverty,” said PSLM member Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04. “I’m disappointed that Harvard continues to refuse to take poverty off the bargaining table...
Matthew Milikowsky ’02, one of two undergraduates on HCECP, said he believed the new contract offered “appropriate” pay raises and said PSLM offered a “moving target” as its definition of a poverty wage...
...We’re at a range that is considerably above what [PSLM] indicated, but they’re still not satisfied,” he said. “They never seem to indicate when they would be satisfied...
...PSLM members have maintained that just as their call for a $10.25 wage was meant only as a starting point, the HCECP recommendation of a $10.83 to $11.30 range was not intended to be effectively a wage ceiling...