Word: strike
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...Martin it was a bittersweet moment. It had been over nine days since her last meal, and for the first time in more than a week, she would no longer be on hunger strike...
...nine remaining students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages and benefits offered to Harvard's outsourced security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon...
After the strike came to a close, about 100 protesters gathered outside of Mass. Hall chanting slogans including "Si, se puede" as light rain drizzled on Harvard Yard...
Protesters met with top Mass. Hall administrators Friday morning. After that meeting, security guards asked students to end the strike, according to a statement from the group sponsoring the protests, Stand for Security Coalition...
...hunger strike was part of a series of efforts organized by the coalition, including daily rallies in the Yard, aimed at pressuring the University to intervene in contract negotiations between the security guards' union and AlliedBarton, the subcontractor that employs the guards...