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...student protesters are demanding that Harvard intervene for higher wages in contract negotiations between outside security contractor AlliedBarton and guards hired by the firm for Harvard's campuses...
...INFO: University To Meet with SLAM (May 9, 2007): The University agrees to meet with student protesters to discuss their demands the same day that one of the students participating in the hunger strike is hospitalized for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels. The University also announces an independent firm will review the security guards’ contracts and ensure they meet Harvard’s parity standards for direct and indirect hires...
...faiths, has an entirely Hispanic and low-income study body and provides a lot of personalized counseling and small classes. Its hallmark is an unusual work-study program that requires every student to spend an 8-hour day, five times a month, working in a local hospital, law firm or other kind of business. Each employer pays $27,000 a year for a team of four student interns. The money helps defray the cost of educating the students, and the experience prepares them for life...
...labor relations. This is in recognition of the critical role that staff, from janitors to security guards to dining hall workers, play in the Harvard community. Recently, however, the University has been urged by some in the community who want Harvard to intervene in contract negotiations between outside security firm and its employees who work at Harvard. I am writing to explain why Harvard has declined...
...Whenever an experiment crowded an engineering exercise, he'd jettison the experiment. When a prime-time broadcast was scheduled for shortly before the crew was to execute a tricky rendezvous, he scrubbed the TV show. "No TV until after the rendezvous," he pronounced. The ground objected but Schirra held firm. "TV will be delayed without any further discussion...