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Harvard dining workers go on strike
By adamg on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 8:30am
Crimson reporter Hannah Natanson is posting updates from the front lines.
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Anyone know what they want?
Can't find anything
Two main issues
They want a minimum $35,000 annual salary and they want Harvard to pick up more of health-insurance costs.
That's asking a lot! That's
That's asking a lot! That's what I make with college degree.
And
do you think that you make "a lot"? Does it make you feel better that people in jobs that require less education are being paid even less? This is not an unreasonable salary request for a full-time position with a large wealthy institution in a major urban area in 2016.
edited, to stay current
From the link below:
From the link below:
A dining services employee at Harvard makes more in 38 weeks at Harvard than someone working year-round earning the City of Cambridge’s “livable wage.”
It's not full time, they work 38/52 weeks. So it's more like 3/4 time. So yes? Seems like they're being paid fine.
Jealous, much?
If you think that this is enough pay, because you get less, then you need to stop doing as you are told and start thinking for yourself.
You know how poor whites enforced racial segregation so that they would still be above someone while being screwed and impoverished by rich people?
You are doing the same. Stop it. Now.
And so, how much
should a person make, in general, without a college degree? $35,000 per year is only $16 per hour, more or less, reasonable for these folks to make.
Harvard has more money than God - they can afford it and much more.
35k is nowhere near a living wage for cambridge or somerville
Double it, and you're still probably going to be living in dangerous housing.
Or is Harvard relying upon workers having taxpayer-subsidized housing?
Not according to the City of
Not according to the City of Cambridge. From the article that was linked:
A dining services employee at Harvard makes more in 38 weeks at Harvard than someone working year-round earning the City of Cambridge’s “livable wage.”
Earlier this year, the City of Cambridge set its living wage at $15.04 per hour.
$15.04 x 37.5 hours of work x 52 weeks = $29,328 per year.
The average Harvard dining services worker makes $21.89 per hour.
$21.89 x 37.5 hours of work x 38 weeks = $31,193 per year.
You
also need a raise.
This is exactly why this country is in the shitter.
Everything with the exception of real wages has increased and we accept it. We don't value each other or work in general. We are okay with obscene CEO pay and bailouts but God forbid some working stiff demand more.
more info here...
more info here...
http://hr.harvard.edu/local26
Keep in mind that this is
Keep in mind that this is information provided by Harvard's Human Resources, presumably not the union or the workers. I'm not suggesting that any of this information is false, but the employees may have a very different take on the reality of their day-to-day work.
Robin Archer. Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?
By Robin Archer. Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?
https://books.google.com/books?id=q2qznJMVGGcC&printsec=frontcover