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Since the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) vacated Mass. Hall last spring, Harvard’s liberal spirit has been noticeably splintered. While there has been a clamor of voices supporting a living wage, other liberal causes have languished on the sidelines. A broad, umbrella group to coordinate and reinforce existing liberal campus groups could be the spark they need to emerge from PSLM’s shadow...
Students and janitors are gearing up for a rally and a display of civil disobedience in the Square this afternoon in an effort to pressure Harvard into making wage concessions in the on-going labor negotiations...
...rally this afternoon, however, workers will be asking for an hourly wage that is about $3 above the $10.68 “living wage” figure the city of Cambridge set last year and the $10.83 to $11.30 of the HCECP recommendations...
...part, Ehrenreich spoke in support of living wage efforts across the country, saying that America fails to adequately care for lower income workers and families...
Today, Summers and Harvard’s negotiating team are betting that everyone has stopped paying attention to the lives of low-wage workers at Harvard and that they can safely resume negotiating with “cut costs at all costs” as their dictum. We have a chance to prove them wrong...