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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #114: Striking the Ivory Tower, with Harvard Workers
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The lowest-paid workers at the country’s most elite university are rising up, and in the first big campus strike in over thirty years, the Harvard community is rallying around the dining services staff as they ditch the lunch line for the picket line. The workers demand year-round work, a guaranteed minimum annual wage of $35,000, and protection of their medical benefits from huge proposed cutbacks. We speak with strikers Kecia Pugh and Anabela Pappas and UNITE HERE organizer Tiffany Ten Eyck as they square off with the administration in a labor battle that...