Word: wage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labor dispute first began when Everett's workers started working at Harvard and learned that unionized painters working on the same projects were earning additional benefits and between $5 and $8 more per hour, according to Laughlin. After learning of the wage disparity, all 24 of the workers signed cards indicating that they wanted to join a union themselves...
...little guy, the one who parks your car, rings the cash register at the convenience store, catches the early bus. As he left town he was trying to expand health care, and when he comes back from burying his nephew, he will be fighting to raise the minimum wage. Leaving the Coast Guard cutter that brought the family and friends back to Woods Hole after the burial, he shook hands formally with the officers in their dress whites but gave the crewmen in working blues a slap on the back. It was a gesture that surely would have made...
...added that the dining hall workers his group represents will push for a living wage in their next contract when negotiations begin next year...
Bond appeared at the rally briefly, giving his and the NAACP's Harvard chapter's support to the Living Wage Campaign...
Many of the demonstrators and speakers expressed disbelief that Harvard--with its famously burgeoning endowment--is financially unable to give a living wage to every employee. Several noted that Harvard is the second wealthiest not-for-profit organization in the world, behind the Vatican...