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Edward B. Childs, a cook in the Adams House dining hall, is probably going to get his benefits cut, and he doesn't know a thing about it.
"We've received zero information," says Childs, the co-chief steward of the College's dining hall workers. "We demanded negotiations and they didn't give us any. The only thing I got was a letter saying they have decided what to do."
Childs, like many unionized employees, has been left in the dark about the University-wide benefits review. For the past eight months, Harvard's top financial and administrative officials have conducted an intensive investigation of the University's employee benefits program.
But Childs alleges that the administration is deliberately targeting the dining hall workers for lay-offs as part of an overall cost-cutting plan.
"Upper management is playing a shell game," Childs says. "Dining services can say they haven't any jobs because departments aren't requesting anyone. Just because the number of students goes down, [that] doesn't mean the amount of maintenance does."