Word: wages
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...hospitalized hunger striker put it, “The struggle continues and the actions will escalate.”Yet despite all the bold proclamations, collective shouting, and drum-banging, last week’s hunger strike ended with a whimper: The University restated its existing position on wage parity, and agreed to a meaningless meeting with the Stand for Security campaign (SfS). This hardly lives up to the activists’ impossibly self-important initial vow to “physically manifest the severity of the treatment received by security officers,” but they are undeterred; further...
...Eleven undergraduates began a nine-day hunger strike that ended last Friday after University administrators said they would soon publish an audit examining AlliedBarton’s compliance with Harvard’s Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. The policy requires outside contractors like AlliedBarton to pay their employees wages comparable to those received by in-house, unionized employees who perform similar jobs. Currently, in-house guards are paid 19 cents more than those contracted from AlliedBarton. But students are demanding that Harvard also mandate a “living wage” for the guards, which the SEIU sets...
...According to Eva Z. Lam ’10—a Stand for Security member who read the audit summary—the audit concludes that AlliedBarton is in compliance with Harvard’s wage parity policy...
...take a stronger role in devising a national strategy to achieve this ideal. The opportunity for postsecondary education is far too valuable in today’s society to be denied to anyone based on anything other than his or her own choice. From a purely economic standpoint, the wage paid to a graduate of a four-year college is about 45 percent more on average than that paid to someone who holds only a high school diploma. A college education also opens avenues to a more fulfilling life, increasing occupational opportunities, providing a nationwide (and even worldwide) social...
Detroit got into this benefits predicament because of a not entirely conscious policy decision by Washington after World War II to encourage corporations to provide health care and pensions (most other affluent countries gave government a bigger role) in lieu of inflationary wage hikes. During the decades-long economic boom that followed, this system worked spectacularly well--especially for employees of Detroit's prodigiously profitable Big Three...