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...Harvard doesn’t have to enact a living wage—Harvard, and only Harvard, has ultimate control over internal matters such as its workers?? pay. And most of the time, Harvard does whatever it pleases. But as a supposedly nonprofit educational institution—and the richest, most visible and powerful one in the world at that—Harvard has the opportunity to genuinely take care of its workers in a way that companies in the free market usually cannot. By enacting a living wage, the University can begin to become an ideological leader...
...report notes that out of 12,722 regular employees, 372 directly hired, unionized workers earn less than $10 per hour. And “somewhat less than a quarter” of approximately 2,000 subcontracted workers??employees of outside companies working on campus—earned less than the living wage figure...
PSLM members say, however, that they are campaigning for all campus workers??not just those individuals directly on Harvard’s payroll. They say that including these two subsets of workers brings the number up to at least 1,500 people earning less than $10.25 per hour...
...effect, the staff has touted the noble values of liberal education—of rational deliberation, of open dialogue, of mutual respect—in defense of an administration that has undermined those values in its refusal to engage with students and workers??let alone enact a living wage...
Harvard administrators have shown respect for PSLM’s concerns about workers?? rights. As PSLM members Benjamin L. McKean ’02 and Amy Offner ’01 wrote on this page on Monday, the group has met with administrators “countless times” over a period of years. President Neil L. Rudenstine’s father and mother, both blue-collar workers, never earned a living wage in their entire careers, and he repeatedly emphasizes how deeply he understands the movement’s concerns. In response to PSLM?...