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...committee data indicates that real wages have fallen over the past seven years throughout the service sector. Take the custodians: in real terms, 80 percent of directly-hired custodians earned more than $10 an hour in 1994. Today, 82 percent earn less than $10 an hour. Or the security guards: in real terms, 58 percent of Harvard’s directly-hired security guards earned $14 an hour or more in 1994. In 2001, 58 percent of these guards earn less than $10 an hour, and not a single one makes more than...
...quality as the major reasons. Yet the quality of work done by direct hires, as measured by outside monitors “is comparable to that of contractors,” according to the committee report. So it is just about cutting wages: 50 percent of outsourced service employees earn less than $10 per hour, while 32 percent of directly hired service employees earn less than that. To put that in perspective, consider that the Economic Policy Institute estimates that two adults working full-time need to earn $13.47 an hour each in order to support two children...
...reality is that Harvard is paying our custodians, our security guards and our dining hall workers less than they can live on and less than the University can afford to pay. While custodians earn $14.39 per hour at MIT, $14.97 at Boston University and $15.26 at Wellesley, custodians at Harvard are paid $9.65. The wages that Harvard’s service workers earn do not translate into buying store-brand food instead of expensive brands; they translate into eating in soup kitchens, going without meals to feed their children and salvaging other people’s leftovers...
Dennis Packard came on strong during the last quarter of the season. Packard (4-4—8) provides an imposing physical presence to the Harvard front line, and his continued improvement over the summer on the U.S. Hockey Summer Challenge should earn him time on one of Harvard’s top two lines...
...Tigers will suffer this year from the loss of Kilbourne, but the team still has enough depth to compete to earn a spot in the middle of the division at the end of the year...