Word: strike
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When Castro was first hospitalized, he received saline through an IV, but refused food and continued with the hunger strike, according to a Tuesday posting on the Stand for Security Web log signed by Michael Gould-Wartofsky '07, a former Crimson editorial columnist...
...MORE INFO: University To Meet with SLAM (May 9, 2007): The University agrees to meet with student protesters to discuss their demands the same day that one of the students participating in the hunger strike is hospitalized for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels. The University also announces an independent firm will review the security guards’ contracts and ensure they meet Harvard’s parity standards for direct and indirect hires...
...Students Launch Fast for Guards (May 4, 2007): Around 20 people—including students and other members of the Harvard community—protest in front of Mass. Hall, marking the kickoff of a widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards...
SLAM To Fast for Security Guards (April 24, 2007): SLAM announces that its members will begin a fast—which could escalate into a hunger strike of “indefinite lengths and proportions”—in an attempt to influence the negotiations of Harvard’s security guards with their employer AlliedBarton...
...University will meet today with student protesters to discuss their demand that Harvard intervene for higher wages in a dispute between outside security contractor AlliedBarton and guards hired by the firm for Harvard’s campuses. The meeting comes a week into a hunger strike involving 11 undergraduates, one of whom was hospitalized yesterday for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels...