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...Indira Phukan ’09—both members of the Dems’ 10-person executive board—as well as Eva Z. Lam ’10. Lam served as chief officer and project manager of the Dems’ extensive 2007 report on Harvard employees??€™ working conditions, which was released on the group’s Web site at the start of this spring’s student hunger strike to support Harvard security officers. Of the three, however, only Phukan won a seat on the Council this fall. Matthew R. Greenfield...
...question is: Why is the United States government paying Blackwater $800 million to do something its own soldiers are trained to do? It is not that their sacrifices are not important and tragic—the men in the 2004 bridge hanging in Fallujah were Blackwater employees??€”but that they are unnecessary and disruptive to the ideal and the exercise of America’s volunteer military. Let’s put that $800 million toward better protecting, compensating, and relieving our own soldiers and National Guardsmen by increasing pay, equipment, and recruiting efforts.It has been estimated that...
Jack R. Meyer, former president and CEO of HMC, started Convexity Capital Management in 2005, but his team—including 30 former HMC employees??€”reportedly had difficulty just breaking even as of earlier this year. Harvard also invested $500 million with Convexity...
This progressive policy, of course, is not a substitute for the good faith negotiations that must occur in collective bargaining. It is ultimately for those with the most direct stake—the employer and its employees??€”to determine how best to arrange their relationship. In the case of AlliedBarton, the employees are represented by the SEIU, a highly effective advocate for workers nationwide. Their agreement must, in the end, represent a balance of multiple considerations that the parties themselves are best-positioned to resolve. Harvard should not, need not, and will not intervene in this process...
...course, unions can have positive effects, such as providing an efficient mechanism for informing managers of employees??€™ concerns and (occasionally) resolving labor conflicts. Above all, at least in many supporters’ eyes, unions dampen pay inequality...