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...As the sit-in dragged on last spring and administrators still refused to negotiate with protesters, help came in the form of AFL-CIO General Counsel, Jon Hiatt, who played a significant role in negotiating the deal with Harvard that brought the students out of the building.
With this, Harvard has started looking to the unions to deal with the issues it was forced to confront with the sit-in....
PSLM members—many of whom had put their academic careers on the line with the sit-in and some of whom were arrested in an act of civil disobedience in February to put pressure on Harvard negotiators during contract talks—were unsure about the handling of...
“The coalition between students...and workers themselves who are unionized was certainly strongest during the sit-in,” says Timothy P. McCarthy ’91, faculty adviser to the PSLM. “I think they have broken down—it?...
Dissatisfied with the University’s progress on the living wage issue, about 50 members of PSLM occupy Mass Hall. The PSLM sit-in lasts 21 days and attracts worldwide support from labor leaders. It is the longest protest in Harvard history. A Crimson poll finds that, while most...