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...current negotiations do not affect the janitors who work at Harvard. The union and PSLM successfully pushed for free health care for both in-house and outsourced Harvard janitors in contract negotiations last winter...
...letter, delivered Friday afternoon to central administration offices at Mass. Hall, Harvard Corporation offices at Loeb House and the Office of Human Resources at the Holyoke Center, PSLM suggested Harvard end the contract with UNICCO and instead hire those janitors directly...
...PSLM request follows an Oct. 10 promise by Acting Governor Jane Swift (R) to cancel the state’s cleaning contract with UNICCO in 60 days and only consider companies that provide greater access to health care in the new bid process...
Several thousand Boston janitors have been on strike for the past three weeks, marching through the streets of Boston every night demanding justice. These janitors belong to the same union as the janitors who clean Harvard’s buildings and who won a better contract last winter after a protracted struggle with the Harvard administration. Many of them are employed by the same companies that employ Harvard’s outsourced janitors. Earning only $39 a night, with no health care and no sick days, they face the same abhorrent conditions Harvard workers have faced in the past...
...main demand of the strike is health care. Well over 70 percent of the 10,000 janitors covered under the current contract are ineligible for health care because the cleaning companies do not provide health care to part-time workers. The creation of many part-time jobs instead of full-time jobs is a seemingly conscious strategy on the part of the cleaning companies to avoid paying health care benefits. These companies try to shift the responsibility for health care onto another company, where the worker presumably works full-time. But many janitors cannot find full-time jobs...