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...current dispute with the security guards evidences the University’s continuing use of this practice, confirming workers?? fears that Harvard is acting like a cost-cutting corporation, says Jeff W. Booth, a HUCTW member and library employee...
...handful of Living Wage Campaign members fight cold wintry rains and icy sidewalks in a series of unannounced visits to the homes of four top administrators. Student protesters deliver handmade Valentine’s Day cards to lobby for a $10.25 minimum wage for Harvard workers??a figure that the Cambridge City Council had adopted as the official Cambridge living wage...
...Primo factory in El Salvador, 5.000 workers, mostly young women, produce clothing for Harvard and other American colleges through Lands’ End. Conditions at Primo are, perhaps not entirely surprisingly, appalling. According to the Workers?? Rights Consortium (WRC), a not-for-profit independent sweatshop monitoring organization, workers at Primo face abuse from supervisors, forced and unpaid overtime and inadequate health treatment. Perhaps most egregiously, Primo systematically blacklists workers it suspects to be or have been involved with a union...
...proven to be an effective monitoring organization that takes into account workers?? voices,” PSLM member Anna M. Falicov ’02-’03 said...
...grew up in a liberal Jewish family in New York in the 1930’s, his father an art dealer and his mother an Estonian immigrant. Despite financial troubles, his parents provided him with an elite education that culminated at Harvard, where he majored in economics, focusing on workers?? unions...