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...students to contribute to University policies. Harvard was also wise to select the student representatives through the undergraduate and graduate governing bodies, as well as to heed calls for worker and union representation on the committee—which, after all, has as its mission the improvement of workers??€™ welfare...
Benjamin L. McKean ’02 and Matthew Milikowsky ’02 were chosen last night in Loker Commons to serve on the Katz Committee to investigate workers??€™ wages at Harvard...
Some of the supposed accomplishments of the sit-in, renegotiations of some workers??€™ contracts and a moratorium on out-sourcing, are things the University would have agreed to without the sit-in, especially since the moratorium doesn’t even apply to the entire University...
...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...
...five attitude questions in the poll, one—whether students would be willing to pay higher tuition if that were necessary to pay for a living wage for all workers??€”was not kosher. For one thing, the implications of the question are vague. What if it had asked if students would be willing to pay an extra $5 a year in tuition? An extra $20? Moreover, I’ve seen no claim from Harvard administrators that they would pay for a living wage through a tuition increase. Polls that contain a political message (e.g., a living...