“Without our intervention they would have kept it up,” he said.

Childs, a well-known union leader famous for having brought food to students participating in the 2001 living wage sit-in, believes that the alleged investigation is part of an effort to eliminate his job.

Allegations that Childs, who also served on the University’s employment policies committee created following the sit-in, may be facing retaliatory action for his activist stance surfaced last Tuesday morning on WBUR’s “The Connection” radio program.

On the program, Greg Halpern ’99, author of the recent book Harvard Works Because We Do said, “It’s a shame, Ed has always been visible as an activist and unfortunately he’s hurting now because of it.”

Childs’ situation is one of the issues that will be addressed at a protest organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement tomorrow afternoon at Holyoke Center.

The e-mail advertising the demonstration, sent out to the PSLM Planning list by former member Aaron Bartley, urges members to protest the “trumped up investigation” of Childs.