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...demonstrators assert that all Harvard workers??€™ wages should be high enough to enable full-time workers to afford to live within reasonable commuting distance from the workplace at a decent standard of living, so that they need not work a second or even third job just to pay for food, shelter and clothing; and that all Harvard workers should get health insurance and other regular benefits. They also assert that Harvard’s failure to meet these standards for wages and benefits is unjustifiable...
...hardships of poverty and those of overworking. This is the case whether the workers are directly hired or subcontracted. And hiring workers through subcontractors disadvantages Harvard’s workers in various ways: directly hired workers get laid off or offered a job with the subcontractor, and the subcontracted workers??€™ wages, benefits or job security are worse than what directly hired workers used to have. Is Harvard unnecessarily harming or exploiting some of its workers? Arguably it is. This claim is especially easy to support because Harvard is so wealthy that it can implement a living wage without...
...Divinity, Education, Law, Government, Public Health, and Medical schools—completely astonishing and new support for a living wage. I’ve even seen a few people from the Business School. I’ve seen numerous alumni join us by pledging money to the Harvard Workers??€™ Center at the Law School. I’ve seen Harvard’s famously willful faculty come together behind a living wage...
Dining hall workers will decide tonight whether or not to grant top union officials permission to call a strike at any point in the workers??€™ upcoming contract negotiations...
...nations and wealthy countries alike by expanding NAFTA’s successful free trade experiment. By ensuring that nations’ basic government services are protected and legitimate labor and environmental standards are included, the FTAA should be able to increase economic prosperity while at the same time respecting workers??€™ rights and the environment...