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PSLM made national headlines in 2001 when it spearheaded a three-week sit-in of Mass. Hall that prompted a review of the University’s labor policies. But since PSLM’s Living Wage Campaign—a three-year movement begun in 1998 which culminated with...
Fenstermacher, who left the No Layoffs Campaign after losing the HUCTW executive board elections in December, says the group fell short because members refused to launch a truly comprehensive initiative like PSLM’s Living Wage Campaign, which worked for years prior to the Mass. Hall sit-in to...
According to H. Amelia Chew ’04-’05, who was tangentially involved in the 2001 sit-in before taking a year off to study labor policy, most of the organization’s veterans had either graduated or taken up theses by the time the...
Indeed, with the exception of a minor demonstration in November, PSLM did not initiate much action in the name of Harvard workers this year, even though many members say the University has begun tiptoeing away from the promises it made following the sit-in. ...
...“[The sit-in] definitely hasn’t stopped Harvard from outsourcing,” Chew says. “It hasn’t stopped Harvard because it requires a lot of vigilance and organizing to stop that kind of thing.”