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Following the report released by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies this past December, Wolf said she wrote University President Lawrence H. Summers urging him to set aside a greater proportion of newly constructed Harvard housing for low-wage workers...
...We’re going to build a hut attached to the side of Adams, like the Living Wage Campaign, and stage a sit-in at Adams. Maybe we’ll kidnap a blocking group in the house,” said Marks...
...recent weeks, the Living Wage Campaign’s use of public protest and civil disobedience has been repeatedly denounced as “coercive.” This criticism is familiar to student-labor activists at Harvard. Although it did not involve any physical force, many called the living wage sit-in of last spring “coercive” because it was not intended to persuade the administration to pay its workers a living wage (two years of such attempts had proven that futile) so much as to induce it to. “Coercion...
...essential fact that critics of the Living Wage Campaign’s tactics have overlooked is that what they call “coercion” is and always has been the only effective expression of workers’ organized power in the absence of workplace democracy. Strikes, pickets, boycotts and media campaigns are not intended to convince corporations that exploiting their workers is immoral. To expect this would be hopelessly naive. Workers go on strike to cripple their employer severely enough that paying workers more is the less costly alternative. Farm workers organized the historic California grape boycott...
...that the administration was beginning to head in this direction. Former President Neil L. Rudenstine created a committee with student, worker, and faculty representation to reevaluate university labor policy. This process, however limited, resulted in far more progress than was ever achieved by the worthless meetings between the Living Wage Campaign and various administrators...