PSLM members not only reject the recommendations of the report, but they also charge that the administration has not sufficiently implemented the stipulations of the committee, as it pledged to do.

But despite protesters’ claims, steps toward the report’s implementation—albeit slow—are not nonexistent.

The most substantive recommendations involve extending health insurance to employees who work at least 16 hours per week and expanding a worker literacy program.

The reception to the increase in health benefits has been “disappointing,” said Polly Price, associate vice president of human resources, in an interview prior to the sit-in.

While the recommendations extended subsidized health insurance to 247 more workers, Price said that only 19 had signed up by the end of March.

The insurance, which is not free but is offered on a sliding pay scale, is either too expensive or not as beneficial as plans available elsewhere, Price said.

Additionally, Price said many of the Harvard employees qualify for Medicaid—a government health care program for the poor. She said employees who do not view their job as unpredictable would not want to be bound by the University’s health care system.

“Medicaid is very time-consuming to sign up for and pretty generous,” Price said. “So people may choose to stay with that.”