Word: slammingly
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...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) rally drew hundreds to Holyoke Center on Friday to support a $20 living wage for Harvard’s janitors. With the janitors’ union contract expiring on Nov. 15, SLAM members said they hoped to drum up support for the janitors going into negotiations for a new contract. Several janitors were in attendance along with representatives from their union—Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615—and members from various progressive groups. The protest also included local community leaders. Speaking from a bullhorn, Cambridge City Councillor Brian P. Murphy...
...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) is a group of students whose mission is to “raise awareness of labor issues on campus, support workers and unions, and to show the Harvard administration that workers and students united are a powerful force for change.” Although SLAM was only just recently formed, its members and students just like them have been actively engaged in Harvard labor negotiations since the Progressive Student Labor Movement led the now legendary sit-in of Mass Hall back in the spring...
...justify campaigning for such an exorbitantly high wage for unskilled labor. Worse yet, the real tragedy is that the Living-wage campaign at Harvard and those like it elsewhere detract from the importance of the minimum wage—the institution towards which the efforts of groups like SLAM should be directed...
...leaders of SLAM—who wage their campaign of guilt via rhetorical exaggerations about dignity and respect—are in dire need of serious introspection and critical analysis of the immediate and less obvious implications of their statements, their cause, and their own individual choices. SLAM and the SEIU act out of a combination of misinformation, miseducation, and self-preservation. We’re all owed more than that...
Aguilera said one hundred people signed a petition yesterday outlining SLAM’s demands, including an end to outsourcing in-house Harvard jobs. Aguilera said SLAM will deliver the petition to administrators next Friday...