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...today wanted to renegotiate that contract early, and it was able to do so as a result of the labor demonstrations last spring. But since the negotiations were conducted nine months before the old contract was fit to expire, the no strike clause was firmly in effect, limiting the union??s bargaining chips. Harvard opened Wednesday’s negotiation session by reminding union representatives of the contract’s provision against strikes or pickets; a warning to the union against escalating their protests...
...increasing wages. Back when it demanded a living wage of $10.25 per hour, the group used the moral argument that workers were being forced to live in poverty. For the sake of justice, they argued, wages had to be raised. Those same arguments were later used to justify the union??s $14 per hour demand. There is a limit to the wages that PSLM can justify on moral grounds, and that limit has passed—Harvard initially offered a starting wage of $10.85 an hour, which surpassed PSLM’s living wage standard. It would have...
...protest] had been viewed by the union as more successful, we probably wouldn’t have seen as much movement,” Jones said early yesterday evening. “People, including the media, are starting to take notice of how unreasonable the union??s [initial] requests were going...
...Willing To Go To Jail” (Opinion, Feb 25). These janitors are not complaining of not having basic rights and freedoms; they are not protesting the injustice of being denied the right to vote or assemble or control their own fate. These janitors are protesting that their union??s negotiating team was not able to get them an additional $3 an hour pay raise in the midst of a recession...
Before his arrest, Morley, one of the Harvard janitors who has been part of the union??s negotiating team, said that the civil disobedience might anger the University but that it was a necessary tactic for the union...