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...decision comes nine months after members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) occupied Mass. Hall for three weeks calling for a “living wage?? of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees...
According to the report, Harvard currently employs more than a thousand workers (a figure that does not include part-time, or “casual,” employees) who earn less than the “living wage?? of $10.68 determined by the Cambridge City Council last year. Most of these workers, some 95 percent, are employed as custodians, dining hall staff, security guards and parking attendants. Nearly three out of four low-wage laborers at Harvard are recent immigrants and people of color; more than a third lack a high school degree. In an attempt...
...Harvard College Democrats want President Lawrence H. Summers to go beyond the recommendations of a recent wage report to establish a “living wage?? for the University...
...take the initiative to go beyond these recommendations to absolutely guarantee that workers’ needs do not go unmet in the future through wage erosion and stagnation. The necessity of such protection from wage erosion is clear. It is at the heart of the “living wage?? idea that great many who turned Harvard Yard into a “tent city” last spring have been educating the University about for several years...
...only admire the energy thrown into the fight and the motivations of our activist friends. But significant pitfalls lurk in their constant pursuit of the “living wage?? mirage...