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...unusually dedicated group of first-years joined McKean for a battle that would last throughout their time at Harvard, climaxing in a sit-in last April. With the occupation of the Massachusetts Hall president’s office and the construction of Tent City in the Yard, PSLM moved from the fringes of the Harvard service community to the forefront of campus discussion...
...impression is that the sit-in changed the playing field to a certain extent,” McKean says. “Activism makes sense now. More people now see activism as a legitimate way of being a part of the community and changing things...
...this time last year, Harvard was reeling from the most spectacular example of student protest at the College since the 1969 University Hall anti-war sit-in. Since then, the protesters who occupied Massachusetts Hall have scored an important and necessary victory: workers’ wages have increased significantly. But most of the unions have since put down their picket signs and concluded deals with the University, leaving the liberal student activists searching for a new cause. The heady days of Tent City are gone, and the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) is struggling to redefine its purpose. Its recent...
PSLM accomplished a great deal during the sit-in, and also during wage negotiations earlier this year. It brought the University to the bargaining table, bolstering the workers’ cause by inciting widespread student protest. A Harvard committee composed of students, faculty, workers and administrators found that low-paid workers’ real wages had dropped over the past two decades and recommended that they be raised above the Cambridge living wage, to $10.85-$11.30 per hour—well above the $10.25 per hour that the Massachusetts Hall protesters initially demanded. The University agreed to renegotiate several contracts...
Instead, UMass-Amherst continues to deny the RAs’ right to organize. In response, on April 19, 15 students and workers held a sit-in in the office of the vice chancellor for student affairs, demanding recognition of their union. All were arrested, including those who locked arms to block a police...