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...following day, however, the Boston Globe ran an article charging The Crimson with hypocrisy because it advocated a “living wage?? for Harvard workers while outsourcing work to Cambodia...
PSLM member Amy Offner ’01 said the group wished to meet with Summers soon to discuss the issue of a “living wage?? for University employees. PSLM held a three-week long sit-in in Mass. Hall this spring to bring attention to the issue...
...ultimately, even impeccably designed and interpreted surveys that capture the public opinion of the majority cannot be the basis for decisions about the fair treatment of people whose disadvantaged economic and social status silence their voices. Harvard’s decision to pay all its workers a living wage??and I’m confident that our administrators will reach such a decision—will result from their taking the ethical high ground. Sometimes it takes a sit-in for decent, ethical leaders to recognize where that high ground...
...PSLM publicist. Hooray! In recent days, the scene outside Mass Hall has gotten at least a little spicier—the fluorescent poster trail has gradually creeped from the administrative walls over to Matthews (I love the one that says “Econ TFs Want a Living Wage??), weirdo hippies in tie-dyed t-shirts (from Emerson or Northeastern, no doubt) take advantage of the free housing in the tent-covered yard, and creepy music continues to emanate from the stands in front of the protest. (I heard Native American chants booming from a stereo one afternoon...
...Harvard doesn’t have to enact a living wage??Harvard, and only Harvard, has ultimate control over internal matters such as its workers’ pay. And most of the time, Harvard does whatever it pleases. But as a supposedly nonprofit educational institution—and the richest, most visible and powerful one in the world at that—Harvard has the opportunity to genuinely take care of its workers in a way that companies in the free market usually cannot. By enacting a living wage, the University can begin to become an ideological leader...