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Hunger Strike for Workers' Rights

Date: 11/17/2008 05:28 pm

 

Eleven members of Harvard University’s Student Labor Action Movement kicked off a hunger strike last week, hoping for better working conditions for campus security guards.  The students have said they won’t eat until the University weighs in on a labor dispute between the guards and the subcontractor that employs them, AlliedBarton. Higher wages and steady work schedules are among the benefits the security guards are requesting.

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