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Today, Harvard does not have a mandatory wage floor for its employees. But as a result of the committee’s recommendations, the school’s janitors now earn more than the Cambridge living wage??which is currently set at $11.11 per hour...
...immediate first goal of PSLM is to help security guards and dining service workers win decent wages in their current or upcoming renegotiations of wages. There are still hundreds of security guards and dining service workers at Harvard earning below a “living wage?? as defined by the City of Cambridge, which on March 1 was increased to $11.11 per hour. The guards have not received a raise in several years...
...rally this afternoon, however, workers will be asking for an hourly wage that is about $3 above the $10.68 “living wage?? figure the city of Cambridge set last year and the $10.83 to $11.30 of the HCECP recommendations...
...labor negotiator, said the union’s refusal to accept offers around that number was “more than surprising” in light of the call last spring by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) for Harvard to pay a “living wage?? and Local 254’s agreement in November for Tufts University janitors to receive base wages of $11.45 starting...
...working lives, yet he rejects those measures that would provide for strong unions that could represent their members fairly. In effect, he is refusing to promise not to employ union-busting tactics. Yet he rejects a living wage on the grounds that an “externally-set wage?? would undermine the autonomy of unions by potentially conflicting with wages proposed “within the context of collective bargaining.” This is total bunk, as unions would never wish to bargain below the wage levels proposed as a minimum. In any case, Harvard should...