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...Harvard students look to rational, quantifiable reasoning when pressed to evaluate political issues. It took the catastrophic idiocy of the living wage sit-in to jolt Harvard students into looking with evaluative eyes at their political surroundings. For this, if nothing else, I am indebted to the campaign. If it weren’t for the over-the-top chanting, postering, and that silly first-year who hadn’t the slightest clue what he was doing, I may still have been living the Harvard lie of blind liberalism without prudent thought. I had to be convinced that...
Thank God for the living wage...
Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 resigns from the Katz Committee after accusing it of having a pro-living wage agenda. The committee, officially known as the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), is charged with investigating the University’s wage and employment polices in the wake of the Mass. Hall takeover last spring...
HCECP releases a report recommending substantial pay hikes for Harvard employees, specifically suggested the University boost wages for the school’s 1,000 lowest-paid service employees to at least $10.83 to $11.30 per hour. These figures exceed the $10.25 rallying cry of last spring’s Progressive Student Labor Movement sit-in and the then-$10.68 living wage established by the city of Cambridge...
Contract negotiations regarding wages and benefits for custodial workers reach a stalemate, according to representatives of the workers’ union. The talks are the first conducted since HCECP issued its December wage report...