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Although the Progressive Student Labor Movement has avowed that garnering respect for workers is its ultimate goal, their tactics have focused almost entirely on raising wages. While a fundamental aspect of any employee’s dignity, poor salaries are not the only explanation for why workers?? employment experiences here at Harvard sometimes leave them feeling less than human. No matter how tempting it is to lay the blame on University President Lawrence H. Summers or members of the Harvard Corporation, they are not the people who leave trays out on tables in the dining hall...
...principle of solidarity between workers and students as we struggle for a more just and democratic University and society. The living wage campaign is only one form of this solidarity. Now the goal is to use the achievements of the living wage campaign, especially the increased consciousness about workers?? issues both among students and workers, to form an independent militant organization of students and workers to fight for more labor rights on this campus and throughout Cambridge. A sustained organization is necessary in order to ensure that the gains of the past year will not disappear...
...more embarrassing than damaging. But sending a message—an e-mail rather than a more respectful old-fashioned letter—that is intimidating rather than constructive is more than a mistake. It gives the distinct impression of an administration unable to resolve the debate over workers?? wages that has occupied campus for years, an administration unwilling to create a more open and consultative dialogue on the critical issues affecting the University...
Despite falling short of that goal, union leader Rocio Saenz called the contract a “great step on workers?? rights” as talks concluded last Wednesday...
...Everybody feels so good,” said Rocio Saenz, deputy trustee for Service Employees International Union Local 254 (SEIU), which represents Harvard janitors. “Harvard is taking a great step on workers?? rights...