Walk With Workers Rally a Success


Thanks to everyone who came out to our Walk With Workers rally last Thursday! Luckily, we had a beautiful day. Our goal was to show our support for and alliance with Harvard’s workers, who often go marginalized and unrecognized by the powers that be. Many different issues and agendas are currently on the minds of Harvard’s workforce. Workers have suffered from hour cuts, speed ups, and mistreatment by non-union outside contractors, all with seeming disregard from the administration and in spite of our parity policy. We wanted to highlight these and other issues, as well as emphasize the fact that workers are part of our community, and that the economic issues faced by Harvard must be dealt with in a way that treats all parts of that community as equals.

Thank You, Brattle Square Florist

Our recent "Walk With Workers" could not have gone forward without the generosity of Brattle Square Florist, providing us with three dozen roses for our Bread and Roses ceremonies. Thank you!

Liliana, Custodian, HMS

One woman whose coworkers were laid off last year describes the outcome of the Bread and Roses action at the Harvard Medical School on April 6, 2009. The translation is followed by the original Spanish text.

"Less than three months later, laid-off workers started to return, one by one. The bosses knew that we were watching and we wouldn't accept the company bringing in just anyone off the street. At that moment, when we broke bread and left roses [for the laid off workers], we knew our strength was in union. Let the bosses worry about their money. That's all they understand. We have fraternity."

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"Well, as far as my daughter’s been conscious of anything going on around her, for like 2 years and change, I’ve been involved with that project. So that’s like my job. That’s where she knows where I am."

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