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...hope this fact is reflected in the University’s final decision. Equally importantly, Summers should take the initiative to go beyond these recommendations to absolutely guarantee that workers?? needs do not go unmet in the future through wage erosion and stagnation. The necessity of such protection from wage erosion is clear. It is at the heart of the “living wage” idea that great many who turned Harvard Yard into a “tent city” last spring have been educating the University about for several years...
Smith has a history of confronting the University about its policies regarding workers?? right and sweatshop labor...
...calling attention to what appears to be a pervasive climate of mistrust. If Harvard’s workers are not aware of their rights or are afraid to exercise them for fear of retaliation by management, something is terribly wrong. As the committee noted, Harvard should not reduce workers?? hours in order to avoid paying them appropriate benefits; it also should not act in ways that frustrate the attempts of workers to join unions, nor should it hire contractors...
...more or less vital to Harvard’s mission and can deserve differing levels of pay, then the committee’s recommendation to raise wages across the board to at least $10.83—which happens to be the entry-level figure for clerical and technical workers??loses all force...
PSLM repeatedly termed the Mills report inadequate for workers?? needs, and accused the Harvard administration of dragging its feet in making benefits accessible to workers...