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...television, reduced phone rates, and more big-name band concerts. Even Lauren E. Bonner ’04, a presidential candidate known for her activist past, seemed to avoid controversial political issues such as the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and its push for a “living wage?? for all Harvard employees...
Foremost among the changes suggested by the report is an immediate wage increase, one that would put Harvard’s wages higher than the Cambridge “living wage?? so strenuously demanded last spring. Also significant is the proposed “parity” wage system that would give outsourced workers and Harvard-employed workers equivalent wages. The parity system, advocated by the AFL-CIO, is a strong inducement to Harvard for good faith collective bargaining and is an exciting measure in its own right. However, in expressing its disappointment at not receiving the empty...
...recommendations and guarantee employees a reasonable standard of living by adopting a living wage. But this position is meaningless, because one cannot insist upon safeguarding living standards without defining what those standards are. How noble it is to cry gallantly for a “living wage?? without ever defining what such a wage would be. It seems so easy to support something called a “living wage,” but unless one has a number based upon principled calculations (which the HCECP was unable to find), then the term “living wage?...
...introduction of contracting middle-men into the service sector does make it more difficult for Harvard to be a good employer, and easier for it to be a bad one. It is harder for Harvard to ensure contracted workers are paid a living wage??after all, contracting executives pocket the extra cash when they cut wages and benefits to their workers. Because some outsourcers like Security Services Internation (SSI) are private companies we don’t know how much of the money Harvard gives them goes to their workers. This is especially true when the contracted workers...
...recommended hikes exceed the $10.25 rallying cry of last spring’s Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) sit-in and the $10.68 “living wage?? established by the city of Cambridge, but the report as a whole falls short of PSLM’s expectations...