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SLAM is also demanding that Harvard increase the portion of full-time jobs to 60 percent of all positions, a commitment made to Harvard janitors in the wake of the 2001 Progressive Students’ Labor Movement (PSLM) sit...
...hour by fiscal year 2006. Diane Foglizzo, a recent Georgetown graduate and participant in the hunger strike, said she hoped the Georgetown struggle would inspire similar activism on Harvard’s campus. “So much of the campaign was inspired by the Harvard sit-in,” said Foglizzo. “We want to travel the country, talk to students, and talk about making real change.” The first issue on the current SLAM agenda is the achievement of a living wage for Harvard’s janitors, said to SLAM member Michael...
...Living Wage Campaign was able to turn that around with its historic sit-in at Mass Hall. Students and workers together taught the university to trade in some of its corporate avarice for the well-being of its community’s lowest paid members...
...first organized student response to Harvard Law School’s decision last month to cooperate with military recruiters, members of a gay and lesbian student group will stage a sit-in and rally today to protest the renewed presence of Pentagon officials on the school’s campus.At the event—scheduled for noon today—protesters will call on the University to utilize its financial resources and political clout to aid in overturning the military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...insist that Harvard should pay its janitors at least $20 per hour plus benefits, increase the proportion of janitors offered full-time employment at the University, and improve benefits for subcontracted workers, according to Gould-Wartofsky, who is also a Crimson editor.A wage of $10.25 per hour when the sit-in began, in April 2001, was equivalent to $11.38 in August 2005, adjusted for inflation of 11 percent over that period, according to inflationdata.com.SLAM’s leadership—which includes Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08, Andrew H. Golis ’06, and Amanda...