SLAM Members Meet with Faust

Four members of the Student Labor Action Movement attended Harvard President Drew G. Faust’s office hours yesterday in order to ask for more job protections for workers, greater transparency in the University’s spending, and divestment from HEI Hotels and Resorts—a corporation that some allege violates workers’ rights.

SEIU Starts Contract Campaign

SEIU, the union that includes many Harvard janitors and security guards, officially launched its contract campaign for Harvard security workers on Saturday with a gathering in the Science Center.

Schultz Talk Faces Protest

Organizers estimated that 25 to 30 individuals came out to protest Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s talk.

Protest Planned for Starbucks CEO

Harvard students, union members, and Starbucks employees from around the country are planning to protest a lecture by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz at Harvard Business School on Friday.

SLAM Calls for Divestment

The Student Labor Action Movement once again called for Harvard University to cease investing in HEI Hotels & Resorts at an event Thursday where an employee of a hotel that is managed by the investment group spoke of a demotion he called unjust.

A Crusty Dilemma

Overall, the move at an individual, activist level to combat labor abuses that many rumors would suggest are widespread in Cambridge and Boston should be viewed as a positive step that we might all try to fork out more time for in the future.

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Harvard dining hall workers, Local 26 union representatives, and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) came together at First Parish Church in Cambridge to rally in support of Harvard's dining hall staff.

Harvard Rally for Dining Hall Workers

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Harvard dining hall workers, Local 26 union representatives, and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) came together at First Parish Church in Cambridge to rally in support of Harvard's dining hall staff.

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Harvard dining hall workers, Local 26 union representatives, and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) came together at First Parish Church in Cambridge to rally in support of Harvard's dining hall staff.

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Harvard dining hall workers, Local 26 union representatives, and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) came together at First Parish Church in Cambridge to rally in support of Harvard's dining hall staff.

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Harvard dining hall workers, Local 26 union representatives, and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) came together at First Parish Church in Cambridge to rally in support of Harvard's dining hall staff.

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Harvard dining hall workers, Local 26 union representatives, and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) came together at First Parish Church in Cambridge to rally in support of Harvard's dining hall staff.

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Harvard dining hall workers, Local 26 union representatives, and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) came together at First Parish Church in Cambridge to rally in support of Harvard's dining hall staff.

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Harvard dining hall workers, Local 26 union representatives, and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) came together at First Parish Church in Cambridge to rally in support of Harvard's dining hall staff.