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...incidents of student protest have occurred throughout the past four years. But the prominence of student activism as an issue for Harvard students and historians alike was established by the 21-day occupation of Massachusetts Hall by members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in April 2001. The sit-in spawned Tent City in the Yard, national media coverage and heated debates in dining halls and dorm rooms about the merits of PSLM’s tactics and their demands for an hourly living wage of $10.25 for Harvard’s lowest-paid employees. In the spring...
They ended the sit-in last spring to the promise of a new committee charged to examine the University’s labor policies. The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), headed Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, met by confidential sessions through the fall, gathering data and hearing testimony...
...recommendations asked the University to reopen union negotiations to boost wages for the school’s 1,000 lowest-paid service employees to at least $10.83 to $11.30 per hour—a number that exceeded the $10.25 rallying cry of last spring’s sit...
Apparently, in order to be a bleeding-heart liberal, you have to toss aside one other old-fashioned value: thought. As the sit-in approached its third week, somewhere in Harvard Yard a first-year student handed me a neon-orange leaflet emblazoned with “Living Wage Now!” I asked him why he supported the living wage. He responded with a pre-programmed response that he’d practically memorized from a handout. I asked him about the socioeconomic principles behind the movement. He stammered. I pressed for his opinion. He told...
Despite early support for the sit-in, students seemed to lose their enthusiasm for the living wage the longer the sit-in dragged on. Student opponents began to speak out against the Living Wage Campaign, and they did so with as much organization and rhetorical skill as the living wagers. They asked pragmatic questions that still remain unanswered. What are the long-term implications of a wage floor? If the University paid higher wages, wouldn’t higher-skilled non-immigrant workers fill these jobs anyway? Wouldn’t that just throw immigrants out of work...