While members of the university's technical and clerical union and the dining hall workers' union continued to shuttle food to the protesters inside Mass. Hall, around 20 members of SEIU 254, the local union chapter for custodial staff, added their voices to those outside the building.
The workers, many wearing Harvard work jackets, each offered personal testimony to the need for a living wage in brief speeches translated into Spanish.
"We are hard workers and you treat us like garbage," one woman said, eliciting cheers from the crowd. "It's not right. It's time to listen to us."
PSLM member Amy C. Offner '01 said she was thrilled to see such visible support from Harvard employees who have traditionally been hesitant to speak up in such a public forum.
"It's always a risk for them," she said. "It's a dangerous thing to come out publicly and criticize the University."
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