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Though registered participants had to raise a minimum of $100 to participate, the top fund-raiser passed the $8,000 mark and a handful of others also raised thousands of dollars...
Late last month, the Service Employees International Union Local 254 and Harvard University finally agreed on a proposal that would raise the wages of all University janitors to a minimum of $11.35 per hour—a figure that will increase incrementally until it reaches $13.50 by 2005. Although we must commend the workers and all others who have been involved in this painstaking ordeal, we cannot quickly decree that victory and justice have come to Harvard. This whole process seems to suffer from a rather interesting paradox: There are more students than workers at Living Wage rallies yet more...
...PSLM had not done enough research before taking over Mass. Hall last spring and have now determined the Cambridge living wage isn’t enough. According to PSLM member Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, “The Cambridge living wage is not a scientifically determined minimum that will suffice in this area.” I tried calling my local “living wage scientist” to ask the same question, but he never returned my call. Casting about for any “scientifically determined minimum” I found a strange concept...
...sweep these negotiations under the rug and deny these workers the money they deserve. Again, as the living wage campaign has progressed, it has become increasingly apparent through conversations with workers that the Cambridge wage figure is inadequate. And even if we were to consider this figure as a minimum, that does not mean that workers should accept it, since it was meant to serve only as a base from which to move...
...think it was a mistake for students to fight for the Cambridge living wage as a moral standard for Harvard,” she said. “The Cambridge living wage is not a scientifically determined minimum that will suffice in this area...