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...wage. Moreover, as noted earlier, Harvard already pays its employees substantially more than many other local businesses. Why not campaign on behalf of those workers? There’s no reason why employees at Harvard—defined by the arbitrary fact that the University pays their wages??are more needy than other people (in fact, thanks to the Living Wage campaign, they are better off than most workers). Better yet, activists could encourage the University to use its not inconsiderable political muscle to lobby for free trade. Relative to the suffering of Brazilian peasant farmers, workers...
...another protest against AlliedBarton’s wages??currently at $12.68 for security guards—three non-Harvard affiliates were arrested by the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) for blocking traffic on Mass. Ave early yesterday afternoon...
...site. “What the whole question is based on is whether there is this disparity that’s being alleged by Stand for Security,” Motley said. “If it is in fact true that there are ‘poverty wages?? for these workers, then I don’t think anybody in our club would disagree with this.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...determine that the “living wage” of a single adult with two children in Boston is $29.64 per hour, an annual income of $62,589, which is about 135% higher than the median household income in the U.S. Boston on a whole has slightly higher wages??the median was $52,792 per year in the 2000 census for the metropolitan area—but whatever benchmark is used, SLAM’s figure is inflated. While many on campus agree that Harvard ought to value its workers, it is absurd to claim that Harvard...
...junior Liza J. Alwes, who is a member of the student labor group Students Towards a New Democracy, said the janitors’ wages??which she said vary between $6.40 and $7.00 an hour and do not include health or pension benefits—are unacceptable...