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Walk With Workers Rally a Success

Tue, 05/04/2010 - 21:36
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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.

Notre Dame Hunger Strike

Fri, 04/23/2010 - 11:09
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Today, Notre Dame students are ending a five-day hunger strike with a rally and mass calling on the university to take concrete action against HEI Hotels and Resorts, a company in which the university is invested. Since fall of 2008, students have raised concerns about the unethical labor practices of HEI by leafleting, protesting, meeting with administrators and organizing teach-ins on campus with HEI hotel workers who are leading the struggle for justice at their workplace.

Click here to email and fax President Jenkins and Chief Investment Officer Scott Malpass:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/notre_dame_hunger_strike_hei

Walk With Workers, April 29th

Wed, 04/21/2010 - 17:04
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Thursday, April 29th, 4:00 pm
Massachusetts Hall

Join other students, faculty, and workers next Thursday to honor the working members of Harvard's community, during what is still a trying time for Harvard's employees. We will walk together through the yard, stopping at intervals to recognize labor at sites of its operation—Harvard's buildings—performing a Bread and Roses ceremony, and hearing from campus voices, all to make visible a binding force in our community: workers.

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