Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of radical economists at Harvard yesterday released a report explaining why the University should meet the wage demands of the striking printers...
...Harvard chapter of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) last month found that while inflation since the signing of the last contract has caused prices to rise 12.8 per cent, Harvard is offering the printers only a 5.5 per cent wage increase...
...report states that if the printers accept Harvard's offer, even with an adjustment for price increases, they would earn four fewer dollars than they did in 1968. However, if Harvard meets their demand for a 10-to-14 per cent wage increase, the printers will earn three more dollars than they...
HARVARD'S JUSTIFICATIONS for the wage differential are as slick as those it invoked in 1929 to justify firing the janitors. Harvard claims that its employees enjoy unusual job security despite the fact that six printers on the night shift were permanently laid off several years ago due to automation. Harvard claims that its new pension plan, by ending the traditional $3.50 worker contribution to the fund, means that the workers are actually getting a 7-per-cent wage increase in each of the next two years. The strikers have a different viewpoint. The plan under which Harvard...
...strikers can't afford to be charitable about wages for the good of Harvard. The University fears that if the printers win, other unions, such as the police and the janitors, which accepted contracts worse than that offered to the printers, will demand that their wages rise to keep up with inflation. Harvard could afford to meet the demands of its workers for a living wage, without raising tuition--if it chose to alter its spending and investment priorities...