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...union had every right to ask for better pay, and we congratulate them on finally reaching a settlement. We hope Harvard’s upcoming negotiations with other workers will be resolved without PSLM resorting to its coercive tactics; it should rely on the collective bargaining process instead...
Yesterday’s agreement came on the heels of an escalation in protest tactics by SEIU and students in Harvard’s Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM). Nine students, workers and labor officials were arrested by police Tuesday afternoon during a protest after they blocked traffic on Mass. Ave. in front of the Holyoke Center, which is home to Harvard’s Office of Labor and Employee Relations...
...PSLM members and workers said the arrests, which were televised that night by several local news outlets, had harmed Harvard’s public image and led to the progress today...
...It’s unfortunate that it still took public pressure to get Harvard to move in bargaining and that people had to be arrested to get Harvard to make a respectable offer,” said PSLM member Alexander B. Horowitz ’02. “If the rank and file ratify the contract on Friday, we certainly support that. And the janitors’ organizing efforts have really paid...
...claims that a group of janitors cannot “somehow coerce” Harvard because they do not have $18 billion or a media bureau. This statement ignores that the janitors are not alone; they have the force of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) behind them...