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Harvard now signs a contract with the outsourcing agency, not a group that represents the workers. It then gives the outsourcer the responsibility of managing and paying the workforce, in order to wash its hands of often acrimonious negotiations, as well as perhaps to improve living-wage statistics while polishing up the bottom line. Though the UNICCO janitors do have a union--a separate bargaining unit in the same SEIU Local 254 where the Harvard-payroll janitors are members--their agreements must be made with UNICCO, not Harvard. Come Nov. 1, the other group of janitors may join that list...
Rallying in front of the John Harvard statue, PSLM protesters must influence voices far from the Yard, who, after a contract is signed, may sit back and take no notice of how the salaries impact the lives of their employees. Outsourced employees, it seems, are dispensable enough...
...Jones '00, the current Cabot House Committee co-chair, his was the only House that put together an adequate publicity blitz. Since they brought in more of the ticket sales (and took greater advantage of the open bar), Cabot residents wanted a larger percentage of the profits. Without a contract to back them up, the Currier and Pforzheimer representatives reluctantly obliged, and both houses ended up taking a loss on the event (nearly $800 for PfoHo...
...first proposal we have seen that makes use of full disclosure. Full public disclosure of factory locations means that anybody can see for themselves whether a factory has good labor practices. Yet, as important as such openness is, Harvard cannot rely on just anybody to monitor factories; it will contract, or join an organization that contracts, professional inspection. The question then becomes whether to take advantage of the opportunities full disclosure offers...
...benefits of the vaccination. Health officials say that college students are more susceptible to the disease because they live in such close proximity in dormitories. Last May, the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) reported that college students living in dormitories are six times more likely to contract meningitis than students living off-campus...