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...rally, timed to coincide with Saturday’s International Workers?? Day, was the largest of four major labor-related demonstrations staged at Harvard since last September, and by far the most widely attended...
...demands which followed ranged from specific to general, as some called for a halt to layoffs and outsourcing, while others simply urged readers to “support the struggles of working people worldwide” in honor of International Workers?? Day. The flyer also demanded an increased dedication to health care benefits and financial aid for working-class students...
...Socialist Alternative was just one of several socialist groups represented at Friday’s rally, which also drew members of the Workers?? Vanguard newspaper and the Revolutionary Worker magazine. Several people in the crowd said that the socialist presence might scare off some potentially interested moderates, but most of them maintained that the rally’s strongest point was its unification of many different groups behind a single cause...
...after weathering 17 years of opposition from Harvard, a group of activists drawn from the University’s clerical and technical support staff finally succeeded in forming a union. Despite a climate of intimidation and a year-long legal challenge brought by Harvard, clerical and technical workers??numbering 83% women at the time—linked up with a national parent union and became AFSCME Local 3650, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). HUCTW proceeded to negotiate a contract with Harvard with provisions for women’s pay equity, child care and parental...
This afternoon, workers and students will come together for a May Day March for Workers?? Rights, gathering at 4 p.m. outside the Holyoke Center to publicly decry the HUCTW layoffs and to address a host of other workers?? issues. Feminists, and anyone concerned about women’s rights at this University, should do everything they can to be in attendance. Their presence will affirm that at the end of the day, the structures of power and privilege that hinder gender equality are the same ones that hold workers down. The world’s richest...