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Student Protesters: The sit-in will have achieved demonstrable results the moment Harvard pays its workers the additional wages. While giving raises to directly employed workers does not solve the entire problem, Harvard will move toward a universal living wage, setting a precedent for the future. Having raised wages for Harvard’s own employees, University administrators would find it very difficult to refuse raises to outsourced workers. For the students sitting in, the issue is even more pressing. Reading period can provide a crucial opportunity for students to make up missed work and pass their classes without bringing...
Workers: For those directly employed by the University the gains will be immediate—a needed raise in pay. While non-union workers are equally deserving of a raise, future pay increases can be made retroactive to the end of the sit-in and guaranteed through the creation of a broadly representative committee on wages and work conditions...
...Harvard dining hall workers voted to authorize a strike, suggesting that the situation will become trickier the longer the administration holds out. Furthermore, having held firm for more than two weeks, the administration can negotiate and remain secure in the knowledge that it is not likely to see future sit-ins, from current protesters or others. Having gained a significant change in wage structure, living wage activists would lose a great deal of support if they reoccupied University property. Nor will another group occupy University property lightly. The lesson of the current sit-in is that only campaigns that have...
...Mass. Hall living wage sit-in enters its 20th day, faculty members have gone out of their way to help the students occupying the building complete their work, assigning response papers in lieu of section, teaching class outside the windows of Mass. Hall and even smuggling books and tape-recorded lectures into the administrative building-but this aid will have to end with the advent of finals...
...proposal to end the 20-day sit-in comes out of a marathon discussion session held yesterday, as AFL-CIO officials and high-ranking Harvard administrators, including General Counsel Anne Taylor, Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul S. Grogan and Harvard University Police Department Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley went in and out of the occupied building throughout yesterday afternoon...