Word: waging
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...campaign for a living wage began in November 2003, when University Chancellor Mark Wrighton rejected the recommendations of a self-appointed task force to raise employees’ wages...
...Living wage, the premise that a full-time worker should be able to afford housing and basic needs, is defined for the city of St. Louis as $9.79 an hour with full benefits. According to the protestors, groundskeepers and maintenance workers are currently paid about $8 per hour...
Student-based living wage campaigns are by no means new to American higher education...
...living wage was set in place at Harvard in the spring of 2001, following a sit-in held by the Progressive Student Labor Movement that culminated in the storming of Mass. Hall...
More recently, the cause for a living wage was taken up at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where a nine-day long hunger strike succeeded last month in convincing the University to implement a living wage program for its workers...