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...handful of Living Wage Campaign members fight cold wintry rains and icy sidewalks in a series of unannounced visits to the homes of four top administrators. Student protestors deliver handmade Valentine’s Day cards to lobby for a $10.25 minimum wage for Harvard workers—a figure that the Cambridge City Council had adopted as the official Cambridge living wage...
Dissatisfied with the University’s progress on the living wage issue, about 50 members of PSLM occupy Mass Hall. The PSLM sit-in lasts 21 days and attracts worldwide support from labor leaders. It is the longest protest in Harvard history. A Crimson poll finds that, while most students appear to support paying all workers a “living wage,” many do not support PSLM's tactics...
PSLM ends its occupation of Mass. Hall. The University agrees to revisit its contracts with unions, suspend expansion of outsourcing and establish a committee to recommend changes to the wage structure...
...biggest news stories to come out of the 1998-1999 school year was the increase in student activism on a number of issues. The Living Wage Campaign agitated for higher wages for Harvard employees, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence condemned the College’s policies concerning sexual assault as insufficient and unfair, and Students Against Sweatshops protested Harvard’s use of factories with poor labor conditions in the production of apparel with the Harvard name. In March 1999, these three groups came together for a “Rally for Justice.” Various other incidents...
...it’s surprising how often the point can be forgotten. When the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) took over Mass. Hall last spring, I began to reexamine my own views on Harvard’s wages. After several months of frustration, I asked a prominent and articulate member of PSLM for an explanation of his position on a living wage and for his answers to the questions that it posed. What are the criteria for determining an adequate wage? Do employers owe obligations to their employees as individuals, or to the society in which they are hired? What...