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...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) at Harvard has repeatedly used Winokur’s involvement with Enron as part of its public relations campaign against the Corporation...
Driskell campaigned hard the next year for the election of Stephen N. Smith ’02, one of the founders of PSLM and a member of a number of community service groups...
...unfortunate consequence of the constantly changing expectations of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and The Crimson is that they have downplayed the magnitude of the changes advocated by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) in its report on Harvard’s employment practices...
...believe that government is not the proper forum to address these issues. Instead, one should single out Harvard as a private employer and argue that this single employer has some extra responsibility to allocate more of its resources to its employees than other private employers. The irony of the PSLM-led protests is that Harvard is a rather good employer when wages and benefits are compared to those offered on a regional or national level. Unfortunately, PSLM rhetoric continues to demonize the Harvard administration. In their imagery, every administrator picks up his hotline to Lucifer before making labor decisions. (Hello...
...that it “was the child of Progress, which is not only an illusion, but an athletic illusion, and which insists that it is better to hurl oneself backwards than to stand still.” It may be wishful thinking, but I sincerely hope that our PSLM friends think hard before raising the banner and again hurling themselves onto the barricades. Give the HCECP recommendations a chance to work before describing them as inadequate simply because they do not include a “living wage...