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...then $10.68—was its stated goal. Shifting its aims so unapologetically—one PSLM member said, “the numbers we’d been calling for were not sufficient”—significantly eroded student support. PSLM??s charge that Harvard was still acting unreasonably became increasingly hard to maintain after several unions reached deals with the University that dramatically boosted their wages...
...same time as it was changing its wage targets, PSLM??s tactics became even more coercive and inappropriate. Eight PSLM activists who sat in the middle of Harvard Square and disrupted traffic in the name of higher wages, for instance, made a mockery of true civil disobedience. Searching for new and innovative ways to be provocative, PSLM held an income-redistributing bake sale; white students paid more and minority students paid less. Yet even this effort failed to capture student interest or even promote discussion...
...first-years, who were not a part of the events last spring, this made breaking into the PSLM??s living wage campaign particularly difficult...
Thanks in large part to PSLM??s efforts in the past four years, workers are better organized and more capable of dealing with the University on their own. But this places PSLM members in a supportive, rather than a leading role...
This has led some to question whether PSLM??s living wage campaign still has reason to exist...