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...usually politics. At this point my friend’s posture will straighten, his face will harden, and his voice will drop several pitches. As he begins to outline his points like essay paragraphs—the in-depth history, logic and economics behind the minimum wage??I shrink back and begin to tune out. In my mind, arguments only lead to awkwardness and resentment. So it goes: the conversation soon fizzles...
...Cambridge City Council passes an order supporting a “living wage?? of $10 per hour for all Harvard employees and threatens that town-gown relations may become strained unless the University acts soon. In May 1999, the council had mandated that all city employees of firms contracted by the city must be paid a wage of at least $10 per hour...
While students led the take over of University Hall protesting the Vietnam War in 1969 and occupied Massachusetts Hall in 2001 demanding a “living wage?? for Harvard workers, this time the activists’ ranks included both students and their professors...
...degree reversal from the picture on the page two years ago, when columnist Bob Herbert slammed Harvard in two separate columns for its refusal to grant the protestors’ demands for a “living wage?? for workers. Had Harvard really cleaned up its act in such a short time...
...city of Boston passed a living wage ordinance. Among the first municipal ordinances of its sort, it required that all major city contractors pay workers a living wage??now set for Boston at $10.54 an hour and adjusted frequently to meet the rising cost of living. Many other cities followed suit, including Cambridge and Somerville. In much the same spirit, and modeled in part on Cambridge’s ordinance, Harvard last spring raised the wages it pays its workers to a level it deemed appropriate to the cost of living. Harvard’s changes apply...