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Harvard’s janitors drove a hard bargain. Last spring, Harvard’s unions rallied around the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in its push to get the University to adopt a living wage of $10.25 per hour. When negotiations concluded late last night, the janitors got even more—a starting wage of $11.35, which will increase to $13.50 in October, 2005. We are happy to see the negotiations conclude with workers obtaining a living wage, at least for now. These new wages give due respect to the important work done by Harvard?...
...past civil disobedience has been used to protest government policies that tread on the most basic civil and political rights. In this case, the protesters used a coercive method to get wage negotiators to make concessions during a collective bargaining process. As with the sit-in last spring—although this event was not on nearly the same scale—there continues to be a disconnect between the magnitude of the issues at hand and the tactics that PSLM and the union employ...
...continue to be baffled by the way PSLM used the same rhetoric to justify ever-increasing wages. Back when it demanded a living wage of $10.25 per hour, the group used the moral argument that workers were being forced to live in poverty. For the sake of justice, they argued, wages had to be raised. Those same arguments were later used to justify the union’s $14 per hour demand. There is a limit to the wages that PSLM can justify on moral grounds, and that limit has passed—Harvard initially offered a starting wage...
SEIU hopes to influence Harvard to raise janitors’ base wages to $14 an hour in today’s contract negotiations at the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street, union officials have said. The negotiations are in their sixth week, and the two sides have come to little agreement on new wage or benefit provisions, despite resolving many other issues, representatives of both sides have confirmed...
Jones said Harvard was considering what he termed the “me-too doctrine,” where the dining and security worker unions would expect the same wage figures as the University would pay the janitors...