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Though the University is currently requesting—not demanding—that contractors perform background checks, Touborg said that these checks will be made mandatory when new agreements are signed with contractors. Touborg said that most agreements are one year long and many will be coming up for renewal soon...
Randy Fenstermacher, a labor activist and a member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, said that the new policy may have unforeseen consequences and called the background checks “yet another hidden cost of outsourcing...
Stephen McCombe, the founder and past president of the Harvard University Security, Parking and Museum Guards’ Union (HUSPMGU) representing Harvard’s in-house security guards, questioned the feasibility of implementing background checks...
...don’t want a criminal or predator working on campus but it is hard to do [background checks] on foreign workers,” McCombe wrote in an e-mail. “The CORI goes back to 18 [years...
However, contractors who already do background checks on their workers say doing checks on immigrants has not been a problem...