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When faced with this difficulty in a statement on its website, PSLM doesn’t pretend to know what the right wage actually is. In the end, PSLM’s only argument for the adequacy of a $12 wage is that it is more than $6.75—and the principled stand for a universal human right becomes a crude demand for more money...
...PSLM believes that the University could put its money to better use through higher wages, it can say so. But it can’t expect the University to respect workers’ rights when no one can say what those rights...
...Faculty Committee for a Living Wage in recent days has circulated a petition calling on Summers to adopt the report’s recommendations in full, and endorsing the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) demand for wages to be annually adjusted based on the cost of living in the Boston area...
Entitled “Faculty Statement on the Living Wage,” the petition was sent to faculty who supported the living wage during last spring’s PSLM sit-in at Mass. Hall...
Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’02, a member of PSLM and student liaison to the Faculty Committee for a Living Wage, said that the petition was drafted “a few days after” the Crimson editorial...