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Union officials said they attribute much of their success to the efforts of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) for Harvard workers. As a result of the PSLM sit-in and union negotiations, they said, fewer workers will be paid less than a living wage.
On April 20, three days into the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) sit-in in Massachusetts Hall, The Crimson’s lead article was headlined, “Sit-in Draws Counter-Protest, But No Talks.” The article focused on a group of about 20 students...
Some of our readers were not pleased with the focus of the April 20 article. They pointed out that the crowds supporting the sit-in were far larger than the ones opposed to it. The Crimson, these readers argued, was making a big deal out of a very small group...
We concluded that the counter-protest needed to be the focus of the article. April 19 was the first day that Harvard’s campus saw active and organized student opposition to PSLM—as opposed to support or silence. This was unusual and unexpected, and we thought...
On May 1, a week before the end of the longest sit-in in Harvard history, Al Sharpton, one of New York's most prominent protest organizers, left Institute of Politics (IOP) planners in the lurch for the second straight week.