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...think the absence of a living wage is something that screams out,” Benjamin L. McKean ’02, a member of both the wage committee and PSLM, said at the time...
Explaining the committee’s decision not to recommend a living wage, Katz said that creating this wage floor would encourage subcontractors to merely pay the minimum...
Just the next day, after six weeks of negotiations, SEIU and Harvard negotiators agreed on a contract—retroactive to May 2001—which would immediately bring the minimum wage up to $11.35 per hour and increase benefits...
Within PSLM, however, the settlement provoked intense frustration. Although the agreement’s wages were above the committee’s suggested range, PSLM members said they worried about the absence of an automatic adjustment to Cambridge’s rising cost of living. Cambridge’s living wage had increased from $10.25 to $10.83 last spring and is currently set at $11.11 per hour...
...Harvard University Security, Parking and Museum Guards Union agreed on a new contract—like the janitor’s union, coming away with a higher starting pay rate than Cambridge’s current living wage figure...