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...many workers still earning poverty wages, a fuller commitment to a living wage as a permanent safeguard is not, of course, an academic issue. Our concern is that a parity wage might create new jobs with lower real wages in the future, or that the University might bargain without good faith and exact wage concessions from workers. As our findings of fact amply suggest, these scenarios have been all too possible in the past. And the example of Harvard’s security guards—who have almost all been outsourced—shows the fragility...
Accepting the new money is one thing. Getting used to it will take a little longer. For the next few weeks, Europeans will live like tourists in their own countries, pondering price tags and trying to decide if that new sweater or pack of beer is a bargain or a rip-off. Most Italians will no longer be millionaires, and the French will have to cope with the fiddly exchange rate of 6.6 francs to 1[Euro]. ("It's easy," says another Paris greengrocer, displaying his mathematical prowess: "You just divide by 50% and add that to the original, then...
Accepting the new money is one thing. Getting used to it will take a little longer. For the next few weeks, Europeans will live like tourists in their own country, pondering over price tags trying to decide if that new sweater or television set is a bargain or a rip-off. Most Italians will no longer be millionaires, and the French will have to cope with the fiddly exchange rate of 6.56 francs to ?1. ("It's easy," says another Paris greengrocer, displaying his mathematical prowess. "You just divide by 50% and add that to the original, then times...
...Katz Committees belief that unions will be able to set the standards for wages that can then be applied to outsourced workers is more than a little naive. Union workers will still be threatened by the presence of lower-paid contract workers, will continue to be bargained into lower wage brackets. Harvard cannot simply assume that unions, which the Katz Committee admits have weakened substantially in the last 10 years, will be able to effectively bargain under these conditions for appropriate wages. That is one of the reasons why Harvard must go beyond the committee recommendations and make...
...tensions in this report go remarkably deep. The HCECP bases its central recommendation, the call for parity, on the grounds that Harvard “should not use outsourcing to undermine its obligations to collectively bargain in good faith with its unionized employees.” However, it would seem that parity has nothing at all to do with bargaining in good faith; Harvard might show the utmost honesty in all union negotiations and still seek to outsource work at lower cost...