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Fifteen students staged a sit-in at Yale’s Admissions Office yesterday to demand reforms in the college’s financial aid policies, occupying the building for over eight hours until New Haven police officers and university officials shut it down.
In the meantime, the problem of union rights remains Harvard’s problem, too. Four years after the living wage sit-in, Harvard management has been slowly but surely replacing union workers in key sectors of the workforce. The last seven unionized security guards were laid off last year...
“Coming to Harvard as a place of extreme privilege and entitlement was hard to reconcile,” says Mackinnon, a Brooklyn native. Inspired by the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) living wage sit-in the spring before her matriculation, Mackinnon was eager to...
It’ll be something of a reprise for the once-ascendant labor group, and although their plans do not include anything as dramatic as a sit-in, a series of teach-ins may bring the issue back to center stage in Harvard labor politics...
In 2002, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, convened after the sit-in, recommended the implementation of the current Wage and Benefit Parity Policy (WBPP). The parity policy says that the University must “strive to ensure” that contracted custodial, dining and security workers...