[7] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sourav K. Mandal)
Thu Apr 19 11:23:04 2001
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From: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:09:52 -0400
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"Cameron Bass <cbass@MIT.EDU>" wrote:
> This isn't a matter of paying grad students more. THe people whose wages
> are being addressed here are the blue collar workers who are being
> exploited becuase large institutions are run like businesses.
What's wrong with that? Even a not-for-profit has to mind its bottom
line.
> Harvard can afford this. Its not something thats
> going to cripple their finances. THeir endowment is enough to buy quite a
> few third world countries, raising the wages of their janitors and office
> workers is not going to cause them to cease the research that is creating
> such a profit for them in the first place.
If Harvard were to obtain some value from paying its labor more, they
would have done so already. Why are these folks entitled to extract
more out of their employers than their work is worth? If the janitors
don't think they're getting paid enough, they should strike or look for
a different employer. Don't tell me it's unfeasible -- the labor
market is still really tight, esp. for unskilled labor.
Sourav
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