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...during the “Justice for Janitors?? campaign, over 700 Harvard college students supported the janitors in their fight for better wages, and the Undergraduate Council (UC) voted in favor of the “Resolution in Support of Workers at Harvard.” Last year, over 1,150 students filled out comment cards demanding that dining hall workers receive fair treatment in their June 2006 contract negotiations...
Another example of absurd and alienating tactics from the opposite end of the spectrum was SLAM’s stunt of taking janitors?? children trick-or-treating at former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ home last Halloween to demand higher wages and increased benefits. Rather than advocating in a professional manner, a possibility given the ongoing bargaining between the janitors union and the University, the group decided that the best way to convince Summers that janitors need higher wages was to invade Summers’ personal life. This is akin to the students from Social Analysis...
...take our direction and our inspiration from those who are most affected by the policy at issue, who have come to us to ask for our support. For instance, SLAM’s 2005 “Justice for Janitors?? campaign and its ongoing campaign to win security guards the right to organize were both initiated by the workers themselves. The Coke boycott was called by workers and poor communities with their lives on the line in Colombia and India. Our walkout for immigrant rights last May was just one small piece of the national immigrants?...
...junior Liza J. Alwes, who is a member of the student labor group Students Towards a New Democracy, said the janitors?? wages—which she said vary between $6.40 and $7.00 an hour and do not include health or pension benefits—are unacceptable...
Although many students commiserate with the janitors?? plight, many do not believe striking is a good plan...