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...also support a commitment to the Workers?? Rights Consortium (WRC) to monitor the status of Harvard’s direct and subcontracted employees abroad. Harvard must shoulder the responsibility to monitor workplace standards for those outside U.S. borders who work on its behalf. We feel that the monitoring organization with which Harvard is currently affiliated, the Fair Labor Association, does not sufficiently protect these workers...
...they are “acting to make [Harvard] a better university” brings into question their commitment. Part of the purpose of protest is to indicate depth of feeling and willingness to suffer for the cause; if the consequences of missed classes are more important than raising workers?? wages, then a sit-in was a bad idea from the start. The circus-like atmosphere of the protest, complete with drums and fire-eaters, has given students even less reason to respect the PSLM’s methods...
Harvard administrators have shown respect for PSLM’s concerns about workers?? rights. As PSLM members Benjamin L. McKean ’02 and Amy Offner ’01 wrote on this page on Monday, the group has met with administrators “countless times” over a period of years. President Neil L. Rudenstine’s father and mother, both blue-collar workers, never earned a living wage in their entire careers, and he repeatedly emphasizes how deeply he understands the movement’s concerns. In response to PSLM?...
...custodial services, the bidding process was a farce, as administrators had already decided to give the contract to an outside firm. Meanwhile, over at the Business School, administrators are fighting to reclassify dining service workers in order to cut wages and benefits. Violating contractual clauses, administrators are unilaterally changing workers?? classification from “board op”—the classification of workers in our undergraduate dining halls—to “cash op,” the classification of workers in Loker Commons and the Greenhouse, who receive lower wages...