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Although all of the remaining seven guards were promised jobs with the contractor, not a single one of them took the University up on its offer. Thus, the specter of outsourcing had emerged for the first time since 2001, when the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) protested the practice in a series of rallies tied to their Living Wage Campaign. Back then, labor-related buzzwords like “outsourcing” and “parity” were on everyone’s lips, thanks to the vocal, sometimes antagonizing tactics of PSLM...

Author: By May Habib and Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Job Security? | 12/9/2004 | See Source »

...issue of more secure security gained even greater importance with administrators after a pair of sexual assaults last winter was traced to Geremias Cruz Ramos, a Holyoke Center custodial employee hired by Sodexho USA, a private contractor. The arrest quickly led to the current policy that requires security and custodial contractors to perform background checks (CORI) on all new employees. Harvard has had a long-standing policy of performing background checks on its own employees...

Author: By May Habib and Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Job Security? | 12/9/2004 | See Source »

Indeed, Murphy says that in the case that a contractor is breaking the rules of the WBPP, it would be “the union’s job to bring the grievance...

Author: By May Habib and Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Job Security? | 12/9/2004 | See Source »

...aspect of the WBPP has allowed at least one contractor to get around paying parity wages: contractors are bound by the WBPP only if their contract extends 9 months or longer and they bill more than $50,000 annually...

Author: By May Habib and Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Job Security? | 12/9/2004 | See Source »

Kevin Ronchetti, a 33-year-old Arlington resident, was arrested in July for allegedly stealing the drill from a contractor who was working on the electrical system in the lab. He is contesting the charges against him and the subsequent termination of his employment at the University...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Labor Activists Rally For Terminated Worker | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

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