Word: waging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spring of 2001, Kaitlin B. Heller ’05 was standing in front of Massachusetts Hall amid a sea of living wage campaign protesters when she spotted a shadowy figure, cloaked in a black cape, cane in hand, lurking around the fringes of the crowd...
...Coming to Harvard as a place of extreme privilege and entitlement was hard to reconcile,” says Mackinnon, a Brooklyn native. Inspired by the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) living wage sit-in the spring before her matriculation, Mackinnon was eager to get involved early...
...became what is known as a “bottom-liner”—one of the most active and vocal members of the group. She knocked on almost every single freshman door before University President Lawrence H. Summers’ inauguration, urging them to hang living wage signs in their yard-facing windows...
...corporate giants. Just an attempt to organize Wal-Mart employees would dramatize the gross disparities in wealth that have come to characterize American society. A public struggle between a CEO who takes home several million dollars a year and his employees, earning a little over the $5.15 federal minimum wage, would demonstrate the kind of greed and exploitation that exists all over the American economy...
...would help the poorest of the poor help themselves. Labor laws are important, but they are no substitute for a strong union that can fight for the real interests of workers. A union at Wal-Mart would do more than any social welfare program to help low wage workers, because it would give the workers themselves the power to decide what they need and demand it from their employers...