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Pressure from unions during the PSLM sit-in transformed the Bridge Program from a pilot program to a university-wide undertaking. It now boasts nine different class levels, from beginning literacy classes which work on phonics and spelling to an academic prep class designed to aid employees in getting the equivalent of a high school diploma. Classes meet twice a week for two hours, and run on Harvard’s semester schedule...
According to Merry Touborg, director of communications for the Office of Human Resources, the University has prioritized communication between itself and its lower-level employees since the PSLM sit-in. Each union now has a benefits brochure explicitly stating what their contracts offer, and the University proactively informs workers about classes they can take, reduced cost subway passes and retirement options. All relevant University documents are now being translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French and Mandarin Chinese. “We’re trying to make sure the employees are better able to know what resources Harvard...
Employees who earn higher salaries are not without substantial gripes of their own, and complain that their struggles have been ignored by a University preoccupied with placating its lower-end workers after the public relations debacle of the sit-in. And while English courses are an affordable aid to some workers, addressing many mid-level employees’ complaints could prove a much more expensive—and less palatable—venture...
Gayle organized a sit-in in Mansfield’s class and coordinated meetings between the BSA and the College administration...
...story. Chris Matthews went up to Reagan and said, ‘Mr. President, this is where we plot against you,’ and Reagan said, ‘Okay, but after six, we’re friends.’ These guys may have been at a sit-in while I was dropping Salients off at Massachusetts Hall, but after six, we’re friends...