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...Galvin said Harvard notified SEIU 615—which represents the custodians??of the planned cuts in January. The University later decided to delay the layoffs until April to allow SEIU to discuss the reductions...
...responsibility to actively influence University policies, namely through the action of the UC. The administration does not, and cannot, exist independently of us. If this sounds revolutionary, it is only because we have grown too passively indifferent to our own community.The UC’s vote on the custodians?? contract negotiations has been likened to its resolutions on issues of international politics, with opponents of these resolutions calling for the UC to abstain from all political issues. Regardless of the UC’s actual influence in either of these matters, the conflation of University policy and international...
...part to full time employment remains a huge issue for workers, since that change in status can trigger eligibility for benefits. Harvard has seen a 14 percent increase in its full-time custodial employees since 2002, moving toward the 60 percent full time employment negotiated by the SEIU, the custodians?? union. According to the Annual Report, the University is also “actively working” with its outside contractors to accomplish that same 60 percent rate for full time employment among outsourced employees...
...caused the dilapidation of the power grids, of course—but I had been the last one to touch the water cooler just before it began buzzing oddly and my entire floor lost power. I had finished off the last jug of water and intended to make the custodians?? job easier by removing the old one before they replaced it. It was not until several minutes later that I discovered that a huge chunk of North America was without power—that I had not, in fact, shorted the fuse that forced “World...
...custodians?? second grievance—that the university did not uphold seniority rights—concerned full-time openings that should have been offered first to janitors who had worked at Harvard the longest but were instead offered to others, according to Bartley...