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Five years after students occupied Mass. Hall to advocate for a “living wage?? for workers, and just months after the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) mobilized on behalf of dining hall workers, activists are turning their attention towards the security guards, who are among the only workers on campus without a union...
Liberals have taken Harvard to task, too, notably during the “living-wage?? campaign in 2001. Democrats with national clout, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, supported the students who staged a three-week sit-in inside the University president’s office in Massachusetts Hall and cast Harvard as an epitome of capitalism’s social ills...
...spring of 2001, Harvard students occupied Mass. Hall to demand a “living wage?? for University workers...
...from issuing political platitudes, as council reps lack the authority to take such stances on behalf of their constituents. The UC’s resolution in support of janitors is clearly a political statement. True, the resolution does not have any specific mention of a “living wage?? nor does it reference the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) directly. Nevertheless, the resolution does contain a statement of values that it “supports custodial workers” and “affirms that workers at Harvard deserve to be paid at a level commensurate with...
Dube’s post, though not a fully-realized research report, suggests that the increased minimum wage??more than $2,000 per year for each wage earner working full time—could have made the difference for many of the poor New Orleans residents who were unable to flee Hurricane Katrina. Imagine. What if just 100 people would have left New Orleans if they had had a few thousand more dollars to spend on transportation and hotel rooms? How many people lost their lives because the Louisiana Supreme Court didn’t think New Orleans...