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...negotiations with AlliedBarton enter their fourth month without intervention from the Harvard administration, the University’s outsourced security guards voted yesterday to grant their Union leaders the power to call a strike if necessary...
...Eleven undergraduates began a nine-day hunger strike that ended last Friday after University administrators said they would soon publish an audit examining AlliedBarton’s compliance with Harvard’s Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. The policy requires outside contractors like AlliedBarton to pay their employees wages comparable to those received by in-house, unionized employees who perform similar jobs. Currently, in-house guards are paid 19 cents more than those contracted from AlliedBarton. But students are demanding that Harvard also mandate a “living wage” for the guards, which the SEIU sets...
...Yesterday, Stand for Security received a two-page summary of the AlliedBarton audit report...
...According to Eva Z. Lam ’10—a Stand for Security member who read the audit summary—the audit concludes that AlliedBarton is in compliance with Harvard’s wage parity policy...
...legislation on the security guard labor dispute. On April 30, the UC passed the Stand for Security Act, in which it endorsed the Stand for Security Coalition’s campaign to improve the livelihoods of the security guards, who are currently in union negotiations with their employer, AlliedBarton. Then last week, seven UC members, acting under a request by UC President Ryan A. Peterson ’08, fasted for a day to show the UC’s supposed support of Stand for Security’s hunger strike.The UC overstepped its bounds in passing the Stand...