Word: custodians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...important way to raise wages is to educate people and thus increase the skills that they bring to the labor market. A living wage drastically reduces an employee’s incentive to seek an education. Consider the example of a Harvard custodian who is paid $9 an hour. The custodian can find a job that pays him $2 an hour more by learning to read, which will be taught in a literacy class through the Bridge to Learning Program (a Harvard program that pays people their hourly wage to attend literacy and language classes). But thanks to the hard...
Jean Phane, a custodian from Harvard Medical School, told the crowd that his salary of $9.65 per hour was inadequate to the expenses of living in the Boston area...
...them that 16 percent is too much for custodial wages to fall in seven years. Tell them that it matters whether your dishwasher has a home to go to at night. Tell them that workers should not be intimidated if they want to unionize. Tell them to give that custodian health insurance so she can afford eyeglasses for her second-grader. Tell them the facts are clear: Harvard owes its workers a living wage...
...SLAM and SEIU members say that privatization has diminished worker salaries—according to figures released by SLAM, the salary of a beginning custodian has declined from $10.34 per hour in July 1993 to $9.20 in July...
...recent appointment of Bacow, a Harvard alumnus who joined Tufts this year from MIT, has not altered the administration’s stance, according to Gustavo Arias, a custodian at Tufts since 1995 and member of SEIU’s negotiating committee...