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During Adams House’s annual Halloween Drag Night this October, a scene played out in the House’s kitchen that has resulted in bitter accusations and a University investigation into Adams House chef and union official Ed Childs. Details of what happened in the kitchen and the ongoing investigation are heavily contested or unavailable. But the case raises questions about how University employees engage with House communities and about how supervisors, managers and employees treat one another...
Usually, according to Childs, employees are able to participate in the Adams House Drag Night and regularly do so. This year, however, full employee participation was hindered. Childs—a 28-year veteran of Harvard’s workforce—claims that employees were told they could not participate at all; a manager claims that employees could participate, but only after cleaning for the night was complete. Childs says the tasks assigned—including cleaning the walls of the kitchen—were frivolous and that preventing the workers from participating in the House event was unacceptable...
...addition to the labor practices of Harvard’s co-tenant, the protesters also decried the alleged mistreatment of Ed Childs, who recently complained of dangerous cleaning conditions in Adams House as well as the inability of workers to attend Adams’ infamous Drag Night...
Deeming this dangerous, and the prevention of participation in Drag Night unacceptable, Childs says that he told his workers to discontinue this method of cleaning and denounced the manager as being “anti...
McGahey denied that workers were prevented from participation in Drag Night...