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...Harvard use more scrutiny in its oversight of contractors, and when the sit-in ended in May of 2001, University officials began discussing potential reforms with labor specialists and union organizers. Although University President Lawrence H. Summers made no definitive promises, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy (HCECP)—convened with workers, students and administrators after the sit-in—used strong language against outsourcing to lower-paid workers in its report to the president in January...
...report issued by the HCECP, widely known as the Katz Committee after its chairman, Harvard labor economist Professor Lawrence F. Katz, blamed the use of outside contractors for driving down wages on campus. It stated that “outsourcing should not be used to lower wages and weaken the unions representing Harvard’s employees.” Their recommendations included the Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP), which requires contractors to pay wages and benefits that are at least equal to those paid to comparably employed unionized Harvard workers...
...such a harsh management-employee conflict highlights a need for more sensitivity training. A program with this goal already exists—Harvard recently updated its training program for supervisors and managers. The new program came out of a report from the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) and the resulting Training Advisory Group. Though the program’s development has been completed and, according to a Office of Human Resources report last summer, hundreds of supervisors and managers have gone through the three-session course, it is immensely important that all management take part...
Childs has worked at the University for many years, has established strong relationships with students in Adams House and around campus and has served the school on HCECP. As a valued member of the Harvard community, Childs should be allowed—and encouraged—to participate in House events. If the cleaning of walls, or any other cleaning task assigned that night, could have been easily delayed until after the Drag Night festivities, it should have been...
...HCECP report, the committee urged Harvard not to employ outsourcing as a tool to weaken working conditions...