That rally was the culmination of a year-long push by the Harvard Living Wage Campaign, which has lobbied for a $10.25 minimum wage--a figure that the Cambridge city council adopted as the official Cambridge living wage.

Although the Ad-Hoc Committee's report addressed the need for increased benefits, it concluded that a higher minimum wage would be impractical.

Benjamin L. McKean '02 said he studied the intricacies of the report and found them unsettling and devious.

He said the report reduced the required wage-hours for benefit eligibility--down from 20 per week to 16 per week--simply because the University will cut the number wage-hours for each worker.

"They'll now be cut to 15 hours," McKean said.

And he said workers have yet to see additional benefits because the administration has been purposely neglectful.

"Not a single worker has received benefits. The implementation process is so slow," McKean said. "They don't have any idea of how many people are eligible and they haven't made any efforts to find out."

Members of PSLM said they plan to continue activism as long as the labor conditions persist.