Word: sit-in
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...weeks ago, I had the privilege to speak at a public forum sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), the group formed after last spring’s student sit-in in Massachusetts Hall to advise University President Lawrence H. Summers on a set of significant labor questions. I was asked on that occasion to articulate the “center left” view on the living wage issue, a position that I believe I share with many undergraduates and a position that leads me respectfully to call upon the University to implement a living...
...held at the behest of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254, which represents Harvard’s unionized janitors. SEIU will be negotiating a new contract with the University early next year—earlier than planned as a direct result of PSLM’s sit-in last spring...
Even though the venue was familiar from last year’s sit-in, the rally bore the marks of SEIU’s recent actions at Tufts, in which the union obtained a wage floor, employer-supported health insurance and a promise of job security following several months of occasional protests and sometimes contentious negotiations...
...relatively small speaker list at the rally included such sit-in mainstays as State Representative Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 and Kennedy School of Government Professor Marshall L. Ganz...
...committee, convened by former President Neil L. Rudenstine in the aftermath of the sit-in, is charged with making recommendations to University President Lawrence H. Summers on Harvard’s employment standards. With the report due on Dec. 19, PSLM member say they plan to press the issue in the context of the union negotiations...