Word: wages
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Catholic city from which my Catholic family hails. Lowell was America's first planned industrial city in the 19th century. It collapsed when the mills closed, then was brought back to life again in the 1970s when high-tech Wang Laboratories came to town, along with many low-wage Asian immigrants. Now it is wrestling with its identity; it has landed a minor league ball club and a new park, but nothing yet has rescued its old working class. Throughout its upheavals, Lowell has often been steered by the church and, in at least one neighborhood, by Father Spagnolia...
Late last month, the Service Employees International Union Local 254 and Harvard University finally agreed on a proposal that would raise the wages of all University janitors to a minimum of $11.35 per hour—a figure that will increase incrementally until it reaches $13.50 by 2005. Although we must commend the workers and all others who have been involved in this painstaking ordeal, we cannot quickly decree that victory and justice have come to Harvard. This whole process seems to suffer from a rather interesting paradox: There are more students than workers at Living Wage rallies yet more...
...result of the University’s negotiations with the janitor’s union surpassed the expectations those of us who prepared the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) report. The HCECP thought a wage in the range of $10.83 to $11.30 per hour would be an appropriate outcome. The janitors got $11.35. The HCECP exceeded its mandate and recommended more access to health care for low wage employees. The University gave substance to the HCECP’s intentionally vague recommendations concerning health care by vastly increasing access to health benefits. The single most important recommendation...
...what is the future of the living wage campaign on campus? Let’s first take our activist friends at their word. Apparently, PSLM had not done enough research before taking over Mass. Hall last spring and have now determined the Cambridge living wage isn’t enough. According to PSLM member Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, “The Cambridge living wage is not a scientifically determined minimum that will suffice in this area.” I tried calling my local “living wage scientist” to ask the same...
...inability to “scientifically determine” an appropriate wage number is partly a result of having families with different numbers of children and wage-earners. PSLM never discusses whether Harvard should have to pay a worker with more children more money or why Harvard should have to factor this into their wage scales. Of course, leafing through PSLM literature I found their own research yields the scientifically precise living wage figure of $11 to $22 per hour. These numbers leave a wonderfully wide area in which to advocate for ever higher wages. Are janitors being offered only...