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...Layoffs Campaign blog argues that, “Workers—every worker, including the lowest paid janitor or library technician—are vital to the ‘core mission’ of educating and intellectual research.” It is certainly true that every worker contributes to our current quality of life here at Harvard, and they are to be thanked for this. But not every job, and therefore not every worker, is “vital.” Part of the discussion regarding layoffs has involved reducing the amount of work that must...
...fact, on the issue of worker layoffs, Harvard has been far from “greedy.” Instead of simply firing workers, it has offered them lucrative early retirement plans and has limited layoffs at a time when many institutions are cutting hundreds or even thousands of workers. While the Harvard community rightly values workers on campus, in the end Harvard’s primary mission as a teaching and research institution must come before protecting unnecessary jobs. SLAM defies that primary goal by stifling academic debate through their coercive approach, and creating a divisive, charged environment inconducive...
...latest in a series of anti-layoff rallies organized by the Harvard Student Labor Action Movement, yesterday’s Festival for Worker Justice attracted a diverse crowd of protesters. SLAM members convened on the Science Center lawn just after 4:00 P.M. Hoisting signs and megaphones, they marched through the Yard to the Holyoke Center, where they joined forces with Harvard workers, Harvard Law School students, and other undergraduates...
...Festival for Worker Justice is part of SLAM’s recent “Greed is the New Crimson” campaign. Last week, SLAM members approached University President Drew G. Faust with a letter outlining their concerns and requesting a meeting with the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body...
Well, I was assaulted once. I was accompanying a co-worker to a business seizure, for non-payment of employment taxes. I was putting stickers on the trucks in the yard, and this pick-up truck comes roaring down the street and knocked the gate right off the fence. This young man, who turned out to be the taxpayer's son, leaps out of the cab and knocks me down and starts to jump on me. He was subsequently arrested...