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Many sectors of Harvard employees have long enjoyed the benefits of unionization. The University’s security guards, however, have been without a union since 2004, when Harvard finalized the outsourcing of their jobs to AlliedBarton, a contractor of security services. AlliedBarton had previously prohibited its Harvard employees from unionizing, but in the face of protests and pressure from workers and labor advocates, the firm reversed its stance in November, granting the guards permission to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The deal was cemented last month when a majority of the guards voted in favor of unionization...
AlliedBarton—the contractor that employs Harvard’s guards—and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reached an agreement permitting the guards to organize in November...
Julio Vargas sits quietly in a small gray house in Red Springs, North Carolina, making notes in his native Spanish before another day of working to organize Smithfield Foods meatpacking workers. Vargas, originally from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
...stadiums are all fair game.His knowledge of Harvard football history, while comprehensive, is well complimented by his own meticulous record-keeping.He keeps bound volumes full of the Harvard-Yale programs, which date as far back as 1915. The collection expanded significantly when, as a high school student working for a contractor, he discovered a trunk full of old programs while gutting the house of a passed-on alum. Their colorful covers, often fancifully painted, were replaced for the 1960 game with a picture of the two captains. He can tell you the story behind that, too.And then there are the statistics...
Harvard’s security guards will be allowed to unionize for the first time since the University outsourced their jobs two years ago, a change that signals a hard-fought victory for the guards and student activists.AlliedBarton, the contractor that employs Harvard’s security guards, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reached the agreement permitting the guards to organize last Friday.“The parties have reached an understanding in principle for a fair process by which the officers at Harvard can decide whether or not to become represented by the SEIU...