Word: waging
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...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) rally drew hundreds to Holyoke Center on Friday to support a $20 living wage for Harvard’s janitors. With the janitors’ union contract expiring on Nov. 15, SLAM members said they hoped to drum up support for the janitors going into negotiations for a new contract. Several janitors were in attendance along with representatives from their union—Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615—and members from various progressive groups. The protest also included local community leaders. Speaking from a bullhorn, Cambridge City Councillor Brian P. Murphy...
...weeks ago, a simple internet post shocked me into a new way of looking at this discussion. The post, which originated with Arin Dube, a Berkeley economist who was involved in the 2001 Harvard living-wage movement, was about New Orleans. In 2001, New Orleans overwhelmingly passed a $1 minimum wage increase in a popular referendum. In a shocking bit of judicial activism, the State Supreme Court ruled that the city had no right to regulate wages. The court struck down the new wage law, dropping the wages of many of the poor city’s poorest citizens...
Dube’s post, though not a fully-realized research report, suggests that the increased minimum wage—more than $2,000 per year for each wage earner working full time—could have made the difference for many of the poor New Orleans residents who were unable to flee Hurricane Katrina. Imagine. What if just 100 people would have left New Orleans if they had had a few thousand more dollars to spend on transportation and hotel rooms? How many people lost their lives because the Louisiana Supreme Court didn’t think New Orleans...
...argue that society shares the burden of elevating the quality of life of its lowest-earning members to some minimum threshold. However, to attempt to eliminate the spread of wages over the range of possible jobs and the skills, training, difficulty, and risk associated with those positions flies in the face of any logic. No group or organization can thoughtfully demand wages 50 percent higher than their current level and nearly double the fair wage as valued by the nation as a whole...
...leaders of SLAM—who wage their campaign of guilt via rhetorical exaggerations about dignity and respect—are in dire need of serious introspection and critical analysis of the immediate and less obvious implications of their statements, their cause, and their own individual choices. SLAM and the SEIU act out of a combination of misinformation, miseducation, and self-preservation. We’re all owed more than that...