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Janitors are now beginning contract negotiations with the University and aim to secure a living wage of at least $10 per hour. Boston University, which has an endowment less than one-twentieth the size of Harvard's, already pays its janitors over $10 per hour. The city of Cambridge passed a living wage ordinance in May, establishing $10 per hour as the minimum wage for all city workers. Harvard will fight the janitors' reasonable demand, and fight hard...
...larger effort by Harvard administrators to subject directly hired, unionized workers to terrible and demoralizing working conditions in order to replace them with cheaper, subcontracted labor--pushing wages down as the endowment goes up. For example, Harvard forced its security guards to work for nearly five years without a contract, by refusing to negotiate in good faith. Harvard's disrespectful treatment degraded the jobs of its unionized security guards so thoroughly that, this fall, roughly half of them decided that they would rather accept a buy-out than remain at Harvard...
Harvard's abuse of workers must stop. Our community can no longer permit the impoverishment of its members--janitors, security guards or whoever. We must refuse to permit the purging of workers who have devoted their lives to this University. Today, the janitors begin their contract negotiations. Students, faculty and workers must now publicly make clear that we will not accept the degradation and abuse of any member of our community. We need to publicly make clear that we stand in solidarity with our janitors...
...again in a matchup of two old-school AFL teams, the New York football Jets versus the OAKLAND Raidahs. The big questions: Will Keyshawn have to play quarterback for Gang Green? Is Rich Gannon really the answer for the Silver-and-Black? And has Al Davis finally signed that contract with the devil? The answers to all will be revealed as the Raiders romp...
Unlike many businesses that "window dress," as Walker puts it, their annual reports with environmental mission statements, he's been willing to take a hit on the bottom line, if necessary. In the mid-'80s, when Greenpeace was protesting Norwegian whaling, he canceled a huge prawn contract with Norway at considerable cost, and has done no more business with the country...