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More than a month after Harvard janitors ratified a contract to increase their hourly wages to at least $11.35, roughly 50 members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and supporters crowded outside Holyoke Center yesterday to call for the University to speed up implementation of the wage hikes...
They said three of the ten employees who were on the committee that negotiated new custodial contracts have been suspended or moved to a different worksite since the contract was signed...
...member of the committee, Frank Morley—who was arrested for an act of civil disobediance during the union negotiations—said he was suspended from work the week after the contract was signed...
Wilson Sinclaire, a Harvard custodian who was part of the negotiating committee and active during last year’s Mass. Hall sit-in, said he has also had trouble with management since the new contract was negotiated...
Some of PSLM’s supporters claim a labor contract is inherently coercive. They argue that a worker’s need to survive “coerces” them into accepting the terms of an unfair agreement. But while it is true that individuals must work in order to live, and that the structure of society limits an individual’s access to employment, it does not follow that employers are somehow coercing individuals into working. These limitations are part of the natural world we inhabit, and employers offer a viable and strictly voluntary means...