Word: totalized
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...Harvard administration has crafted its own language to discuss this issue, weaving together careful catch-phrases while avoiding the clear moral imperative of a living wage. Prominent in their argument is "total compensation"--the strange notion that workers should not demand a wage sufficient to live if they receive some package of benefits and time off. But most casual and subcontracted workers do not receive "total compensation" packages. Perhaps Harvard would do well to supplement a living wage with these packages, so its workers and their families could live well above the poverty line. Benefits and a living wage...
...would simply hope that the suggestion of a living wage would not be a ridiculous proposition for an institution with an endowment of $13 billion, whose income totaled $1.52 billion in fiscal year 1997 and whose fundraising campaign last year yielded more than $1 billion. Last year Harvard paid a single Harvard employee (Jonathan Jacobson, the fund manager of the Harvard Management Company) $10 million. If Harvard really believes that the notion of "total compensation" will lift all boats, why don't we begin by paying Mr. Jacobson in benefits and time off rather than in cash...
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