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HUCTW, however, was not involved in last spring’s negotiations, which sprang from the most bitter labor dispute in recent Harvard history—the three-week long Mass. Hall sit-in by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in spring...
Student support has been key to Harvard’s labor interests. Without the sit-in, the committee that recommended wage increases and required parity pay for outsourced workers would never have convened...
...attracting attention through rabble-rousing speeches is somehow incompatible with a stated “[vision] of social justice” (and therefore disingenuous) would be to ignore, for example, the successes made by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in the period of time immediately following the sit-in. The “concessions from the administration” that he mentioned, after all, did not come without a fight (and if the PSLM’s protests were not truly “about the janitors,” then to whom were these concessions made...
...Dharma & Greg laugh-track kind of way. Emily, a polite and perfumed sophomore member of the Bee from the Upper East Side of New York, meets Jordan, a Jersey native who lives in the Dudley Co-op and made headlines by being a member of the PSLM sit-in while still a first-year at the college. Still, Harvard is a small, small world. It turns out that the two have met once before, while dining with Manuela L. Zoninsein ’05, Emily’s roommate and Jordan’s FUPpie. The pair seeks?...
...real hypocrite is the average economics student bound for a career in investment banking who criticized the sit-in as divisive and economically wrong-headed, yet whose entire existence is permeated by class anxiety. Such students can hardly claim to be oblivious to class concerns when their college lives are focused on preparing them for lucrative careers with salaries that show they have “made...