Word: wage
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...Living Wage Campaign is fighting for a reasonable hourly rate of pay, as defined by the City of Cambridge, but implicit in its message is a call to treat those who cook our meals, clean our floors and wash our dishes with respect. This respect can take many forms and is all too often absent. It's in things as simple as politely greeting the employee who swipes our cards at meals as well as in refraining from adorning the Quincy House elevator with frozen yogurt, as someone felt the need to do last week...
...addition to full disclosure of factory locations and names, the provisions adopted by UW provide for a university commitment to participate in a global living wage study, a country specific living wage to be paid to all clothing workers and special protection for women in factories...
...Michigan students won an agreement that included full disclosure, protection for women and a living wage for workers. Other sit-ins on the issue have taken place at Duke, Brown and Georgetown universities, the University of Arizona and the University of North Carolina...
...second demand was for workers to be paid a "living wage" for the country they live in. Third was an assurance of protection for women--who activists say are more vulnerable in some factory settings...
Rudenstine's comments come one week after Living Wage Campaign supporters presented a letter endorsed by more than 100 faculty members to the administration and as the campaign threatens to stage demonstrations at Commencement...