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...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) “has never just been about achieving a living wage,” as member Daniel DiMaggio ’04 wrote in a recent opinion piece. But the issue of higher wages for Harvard’s workers has also been the overwhelming focus of the group’s efforts for the past 18 months. What will take its place...
...year-old President has veered wildly across the political landscape and has been neutered in domestic policy since losing parliamentary elections in 1997. This forced him to appoint Lionel Jospin as Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government of socialists, communists and greens, and to wage a five-year guerrilla war against him ahead of the spring election. Voting for Chirac means no more than voting for an old campaigner...
Critics of fair trade coffee often argue that by guaranteeing a wage floor of $1.26 per pound, market forces will not prevent oversupply. However, the current market is not free. Producers in poor countries do not benefit from the same government subsidies that American farmers do and are restricted from: emigrating to richer countries such as the U.S. While producers who can’t profit in one sector should be able to switch to another, coffee farmers are generally too poor to do so. (If they do switch, coca, a source of cocaine, is one of the most profitable...
...PSLM has never just been about achieving a living wage. PSLM is an organization dedicated to the principle of solidarity between workers and students as we struggle for a more just and democratic University and society. The living wage campaign is only one form of this solidarity. Now the goal is to use the achievements of the living wage campaign, especially the increased consciousness about workers’ issues both among students and workers, to form an independent militant organization of students and workers to fight for more labor rights on this campus and throughout Cambridge. A sustained organization...
...outrage as an extracurricular in general and Harvard’s very own Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in particular, I was concerned by the news that 97 percent of Harvard janitors recently ratified a new contract after weeks of negotiation with the administration (News, “Janitors Wage Still Not a Living Wage,” Mar. 4). I noted that the new base wage exceeded the various living wage standards set by the City of Cambridge, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) and the PSLM itself, and further that union leader Rocio Saenz called...