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...strength of the partnership became clear last spring, as PSLM members forced the University to agree to renegotiate workers?? contracts with a three-week long occupation of Mass. Hall...
...this time last year, Harvard was reeling from the most spectacular example of student protest at the College since the 1969 University Hall anti-war sit-in. Since then, the protesters who occupied Massachusetts Hall have scored an important and necessary victory: workers?? wages have increased significantly. But most of the unions have since put down their picket signs and concluded deals with the University, leaving the liberal student activists searching for a new cause. The heady days of Tent City are gone, and the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) is struggling to redefine its purpose. Its recent...
PSLM accomplished a great deal during the sit-in, and also during wage negotiations earlier this year. It brought the University to the bargaining table, bolstering the workers?? cause by inciting widespread student protest. A Harvard committee composed of students, faculty, workers and administrators found that low-paid workers?? real wages had dropped over the past two decades and recommended that they be raised above the Cambridge living wage, to $10.85-$11.30 per hour—well above the $10.25 per hour that the Massachusetts Hall protesters initially demanded. The University agreed to renegotiate several contracts...
PSLM’s actions in the latter half of this academic year only drew attention away from its victories. Its dedicated members should continue to press for the one remaining major goal that has not been realized—a living wage that increases along with workers?? cost of living and inflation. PSLM must also refine its idea of what constitutes a “living wage;” a wage that was good enough for workers last spring should still be sufficient now. If PSLM focuses its energy on these two goals, it can regain...
Coalition leaders also called for student input into areas such as sexual violence policy, workers?? rights and University governance...