Word: wageã
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...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...
...comfortable cosmopolitan jobs. Yet throughout Harvard history there have been students who have defied this stereotype, challenging the existing order in striking and dramatic ways. The takeover of Mass. Hall last year by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in its campaign for a “living wage?? is just the latest chapter in this turbulent history...
...unwilling host. But today, a majority of students describe PSLM students as “passionate” and “committed.” Sandhya Ramadas ’04 said that she sees the PSLM as “committed seriously to bringing a living wage?? and as “social justice advocates.” For Sandhya, it was the sit-in that “got me to think about it,” and it “made PSLM more visible—you see them as people who will...
Hoxby does not use the phrase, but it’s everywhere implied in her editorial. Opponents of the living wage??despite their considerable lack of public engagement with this issue—have been “demonized”; expression for them is a “punishing” affair. The disdain for free speech goes even deeper, Hoxby asserts: a faculty member on the committee allegedly “argued that Harvard students should not be allowed to express their views.” Furthermore, according to her logic, those on the committee...
...much-publicized committee was born last spring out of the three-week-long occupation of Mass. Hall, home of the president’s office. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) organized the sit-in as part of their push for a “living wage??—a mandatory wage floor of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees...