Touborg lists debates over benefits, changing marketing rates, the need to control costs, worker equity and the desirability of Harvard as a workplace as factors that may affect negotiations.
"The living wage campaign [has] a pretty simplistic way of looking at the world," Price says.
But PSLM says they are committed to more activism until the University enacts the minimum $10 per hour living wage for all employees.
"The labor gains of the past months are a direct result of public humiliation," Offner says. "It didn't convince me that the University is committed to fair labor practices but that the tactics we are using are effective."
Education for Action
Originally founded in 1997 as an organization primarily dedicated to educating students about labor issues, PSLM stills views outreach and education as crucial to achieving its overall goals.
Much of PSLM's work centers around gathering signatures and leafleting members of the Harvard community, including students, Faculty, alumni and workers.
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