Harvard Union Members Join Occupy Boston Movement

[struggle4progress]

By Mercer R. Cook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, October 13, 2011

... “Big universities like Harvard have become tools of large corporations,” said Wayne M. Langley, director of higher education for the Service Employees International Union Local 615, which represents custodians and dining hall workers on campus. “Universities have become part of the problem. They are just like the big banks.”

Members of the SEIU Local 615, UNITE HERE! Local 26, and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers are not only participating in the movement in Dewey Square—they are also coordinating food deliveries and collaborating with organizers to plan other events.

They have plans for several labor marches in Dewey Square. which SEIU leaders say will be occurring within the next seven days.

“We think this movement is important and fully support it,” Langley said. “It’s about time that the focus shift back to the people who caused the financial crisis.” ...

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/13/harvard-union-occupy-boston/

[jwirr]

1. I would agree with them regarding universities - how many of them

are teaching Milton Friedman's trickle down theory of economics today? How many of them are not even mentioning the truth about that policy and its effect on our economy today? As long as they keep pushing that policy they are a big part of the problem.