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Harvard’s janitors drove a hard bargain. Last spring, Harvard’s unions rallied around the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in its push to get the University to adopt a living wage of $10.25 per hour. When negotiations concluded late last night, the janitors got even more—a starting wage of $11.35, which will increase to $13.50 in October, 2005. We are happy to see the negotiations conclude with workers obtaining a living wage, at least for now. These new wages give due respect to the important work done by Harvard?...
...wage negotiators to make concessions during a collective bargaining process. As with the sit-in last spring—although this event was not on nearly the same scale—there continues to be a disconnect between the magnitude of the issues at hand and the tactics that PSLM and the union employ...
Such a show for the cameras was coercive and therefore unjustified while bargaining was ongoing. Although many in the Harvard community rightly demanded fair wages for workers, the continued coercive tactics and ever-changing demands of PSLM only weakened student support for their cause...
...continue to be baffled by the way PSLM used the same rhetoric to justify ever-increasing wages. Back when it demanded a living wage of $10.25 per hour, the group used the moral argument that workers were being forced to live in poverty. For the sake of justice, they argued, wages had to be raised. Those same arguments were later used to justify the union’s $14 per hour demand. There is a limit to the wages that PSLM can justify on moral grounds, and that limit has passed—Harvard initially offered a starting wage...
...supporters began gathering at about 3:45 p.m. in front of the Holyoke Center. Police estimated the crowd at around 300 people, while the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), which helped organize the rally, said it collected 506 signatures of support at the event...