Word: wage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MINIMUM WAGE AS Congress debates whether to raise it, a look at how its buying power has declined...
...force our subcontractors to pay a living wage...
...city of Cambridge and every other city that has passed a living wage ordinance requires subcontractors to meet its wage standard. Mechanisms have been developed in all these cities to force subcontractors to pay decent wages, and there is no reason to believe that Harvard could not employ similar means. In fact, Harvard already directly participates in determining the wages of its subcontracted workers through contract negotiations. As one of the largest and most powerful institutions in the state, Harvard has no trouble influencing the firms with which it does business...
...arguments presented by the administration are evasive, misleading and so obviously wrong that we can hardly imagine that administrators honestly believe them. It is clear to the overwhelming majority of students, workers and community members that a $10-per-hour living wage at Harvard is fair and necessary, and that the poverty that this University creates is unacceptable by any measure...
...Harvard employee should have to work three jobs to meet his or her family's basic needs; no working family should be forced to balance endlessly on the brink of economic disaster. In asking for a living wage, we call on Harvard administrators to join the rest of the community in recognizing that the lives of working people are more important than nickels and dimes. It is time for Neil Rudenstine to take responsibility for the economic survival of the people who make this university...