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Last December, AlliedBarton Security Services (AlliedBarton), the company which employs the security guards working on the Harvard campus, voluntarily recognized the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as the exclusive bargaining representative for its employees working at Harvard. AlliedBarton and the SEIU recently began to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement that will address the set of interconnected issues that define the relationship between an employer and its employees...
...vendor that provides services on our campus, AlliedBarton is fully subject to the Wage and Benefit Parity Policy. This requires the company to pay wages and benefits no less than those received by unionized Harvard employees working in comparable positions. Compliance is regularly examined by independent auditors...
...Hall, marking the kickoff of a widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards. Eleven members of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) said they would fast in order to garner support for recently unionized security guards employed by subcontractor AlliedBarton, who are currently undergoing contract negotiations with the company. SLAM member and strike participant Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 said the campaign is necessary to draw the attention of the community and the administration. The students, who officially started their hunger strike...
Harvard University spokesman Joe Wrinn said last night that the University believed in the “fair and equitable treatment of workers,” but added that “we believe it’s a matter between AlliedBarton and their employees...
Nworah B. Ayogu ’10, the political action chair for the BMF, said that he was hopeful that the protest and fast would persuade Harvard to influence AlliedBarton in rewriting its contracts to make them more respectful of the “basic rights any workers deserve...