Choice Matters More

While I support the right of strawberry pickers to work in humane conditions, their unionization is a complex issue. Many migrant workers are Mexican citizens who are in this country on seasonal work permits. Whether they deserve guaranteed health care at the expense of the American tax-payer is not clear. Further, any unionization is bound to have far-reaching economic consequences. Harvard students should decide on an individual basis whether or not to support the goals of the strawberry pickers. More importantly, HDS does not deserve the right to dictate whether or not students can actually consume strawberries at meals. The staff's endorsements of a potential HDS boycott is a careless presumption that all students share the same opinion concerning this complicated matter.