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Harvard and Georgetown students convened last night to discuss future union empowerment and the achievement of a living wage on campus at a meeting organized by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). The meeting is one of four SLAM events this week, including a Thursday roundtable on workers?? rights. After a three year campaign and nine-day hunger strike, Georgetown students won a living wage for workers last spring—successfully demanding full-time contract workers be paid a minimum of $13 an hour by fiscal year 2006. Diane Foglizzo, a recent Georgetown graduate and participant...
Harvard compounds the crisis by failing to provide hundreds of janitors with full-time work, breaking the promise made in its last contract to expand full-time opportunities to 60 percent of custodial jobs on campus. And the University continues to cut costs on workers?? backs by outsourcing work and allowing its subcontractors to pay lesser benefits for the same...
...else that we may have learned in Ec10. Rather, if the living-wage campaign were successful in achieving a wage increase for Harvard’s lowest-paid workers, it will have done so at the cost of respect that the rest of the Harvard community has for these workers??a cost that, no matter how high the wage increase, is too high to pay.It might seem presumptuous to criticize a living-wage campaign on the grounds of lost respect for those whom the campaign is intended to help. Perhaps there is actually a more monetarily selfish reason...
...Union (SEIU) Local 615, are currently renegotiating their contract with the University. The contract is set to expire on Nov. 15.Courtney Snegroff, a spokeswoman for SEIU Local 615, declined to comment about some of SLAM’s specific demands. But she adds that the SEIU stands behind the workers?? demands in principle.“The priorities that SLAM has are the priorities of the janitors,” she says, “and we’re there to represent the workers and what they’re fighting for.”William...
Last night, SLAM called on Harvard to give its janitors $20 per hour with benefits, an amount that amounts, SLAM pamphlets say, to a living wage in the Boston area. It also urged the University to increase the opportunities for full-time work, to honor the workers?? right to unionize, and to cease outsourcing service work immediately...