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...building manager [of the library] is in close touch with the contractor,” said Aaron Bartley, an organizer for Harvard’s janitors’ union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254. “It’s not as if the contractor??s off on its own without any oversight by Harvard...
After all, what Allstate did sounds mighty coercive. During the 1990s, Allstate had attempted to convince its agents to switch to “independent contractor?? status voluntarily—without much success, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by former employees. As a result of the company’s “reorganization,” however, thousands of workers signed the release and took an opportunity to keep something resembling their old jobs. How many would have taken the deal if they weren’t faced with being thrown out of work, prohibited...
...their brand). In both cases outsourced workers have substantially less bargaining power with either their contractors or the large American corporations who employ them. And, in both situations the consumers of the goods and services have protested the conditions of the workers, holding the primary corporations responsible for their contractor??s labor standards...
...reasonably have agreed to lower wages in order to ensure a steady supply of work—those tradeoffs are the essence of collective bargaining. But if union negotiation is the only proper way to set wages, then why shouldn’t Harvard be able to purchase the contractor??s services in good conscience regardless of whether it pays parity wages? In fact, that’s the exact decision Harvard made several years ago when it outsourced to unionized custodians...