The Harvard Living Wage Sit-In protest was ultimately successful because it achieved most of its goals in the end. The university administration finally agreed to negotiate with the workers and students. Then Harvard made significant changes in terms of workers’ living wage. For example, the university promised to pay service workers at least $10.83 (improved from $9) per hour, to pay equal wages to directly hired and outsourced workers, and to provide janitors with vacation, sick days, and free health care. Although it was still less than that ten years ago, it was a significant improvement at that time. Therefore, to a great extent, the protest succeeded in improving the living wage and working conditions of service workers at Harvard.
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