Harvard is the world’s wealthiest University. But until recently, many of the people who worked there could have just as well been working at McDonalds, their pay was so low. These are the people who dust the portraits, polish the oak panels, scrub the toilets and wash the floors. These are the janitors and security guards who work day and night doing jobs that most of the students and faculty there would find abhorrent, and way below their station in life.
But two years ago, something happened at Harvard, something that changed the paychecks of some of its lowest paid workers and changed the lives of some of its students. How a handful of undergrads took on the nation’s wealthiest University and won.
Guests:
Greg Halpern, author of “Harvard Works Because We Do”;
Danny Meagher, Security Guard;