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...rate of increase of the U.S. consumer price index” if the University refuses to negotiate a contract with unions. Although it is not the same as a living wage provision—because unions may have to accept lower wages in exchange for something else—HCECP??s fair bargaining clause provides some protection to unions from being forced to accept poverty wages in order to get their contract signed. Without this clause, the crisis of poverty on Harvard’s campus could easily return as soon as after the next contract negotiation...
According to HCECP??s final report, in the past Harvard had lowered wages for its janitors by threatening to outsource their jobs to lower-paid subcontracted employees. The “parity” provision was designed to stop this practice in the future...
...Contracting Policies (HCECP) report. The HCECP thought a wage in the range of $10.83 to $11.30 per hour would be an appropriate outcome. The janitors got $11.35. The HCECP exceeded its mandate and recommended more access to health care for low wage employees. The University gave substance to the HCECP??s intentionally vague recommendations concerning health care by vastly increasing access to health benefits. The single most important recommendation, the parity policy to ensure that outsourcing will never again occur at the expense of workers, was implemented...
Third, there is the disturbing racial and ethnic breakdown of low-wage labor at Harvard. Based on the HCECP??s findings, we now know that 73 percent of workers who do not earn a living wage are people of color—and this percentage has increased steadily over the course of the last decade. Yet during the 1990s, thanks in part to the leadership of former President Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard simultaneously affirmed its commitment to, among other things, affirmative action, faculty and student diversity and the creation of the finest Afro-American Studies department...
University spokesperson Joe Wrinn said yesterday that he expects Summers to reach a formal decision regarding implementation of the HCECP??s recommendations “in the next few short weeks...