Word: springã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...letter expressed concern that choosing not to implement a mandatory wage floor could result in action similar to last spring??s Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) Mass. Hall...
...weeks ago, I had the privilege to speak at a public forum sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), the group formed after last spring??s student sit-in in Massachusetts Hall to advise University President Lawrence H. Summers on a set of significant labor questions. I was asked on that occasion to articulate the “center left” view on the living wage issue, a position that I believe I share with many undergraduates and a position that leads me respectfully to call upon the University to implement a living...
...poverty line in this area—then I believe the vast majority would say, “of course.” Lamentably, PSLM’s tactics have seemed to come under closer scrutiny than the cause they serve, and discussion on the propriety of last spring??s sit-in has taken much-needed attention away from the far more pertinent dialogue on the appropriateness of Harvard’s employment practices...
...turnover of students to avoid addressing potentially embarrassing issues, and that seemed to be the tack taken by the administration all last year, when it ignored the efforts of students, faculty and workers to engage in dialogue about its employment practices. In the same vein, what best characterized last spring??s ordeal for me was not the protest activity but the University’s continuing, indifferent response to the situation, the administration seeming as unwilling to examine its position as to defend it. It shouldn’t require 45 people risking arrest, academic failure and their...
Galper’s steering committee consists of Galper as chair, as well as an associate chair, a secretary and an events coordinator. This spring??s steering committee will have Solomon-Schwartz as president, along with five vice presidents...