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...earning poverty wages, a fuller commitment to a living wage as a permanent safeguard is not, of course, an academic issue. Our concern is that a parity wage might create new jobs with lower real wages in the future, or that the University might bargain without good faith and exact wage concessions from workers. As our findings of fact amply suggest, these scenarios have been all too possible in the past. And the example of Harvard’s security guards—who have almost all been outsourced—shows the fragility of the “parity...
...midway through the book both Capt. "O" and the futuristic setting recede in favor of meditative free-association comix and thoughtful travelogues. One of the pleasures of reading the book is in watching how the artist evolves from creating whimsical spoofs with a touch of poetic consciousness to the exact inverse of that...
Harvard appeared to be out of the game, but Merchant hit a three-pointer from the right wing to rekindle the Crimson faithful. A Wente turnover gave Harvard the ball back with 19 seconds and a chance to exact revenge for last year’s improbable loss...
...collective bargaining. But if union negotiation is the only proper way to set wages, then why shouldn’t Harvard be able to purchase the contractor’s services in good conscience regardless of whether it pays parity wages? In fact, that’s the exact decision Harvard made several years ago when it outsourced to unionized custodians...
...before everyone runs down to New York, I should add that I do not mean “free” in the base, worldly, monetary sense—indeed, quite the opposite, as the Pub is able (perhaps as a deserved compensation for audaciously defying the authorities) to exact prices on drinks that exceed what one can purchase retail in a corner store by many hundred percent. But in another important sense, every drop of mind-numbing ferment that passes into the hands of the Pub’s thirsty customers is absolutely gratis—free...