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...keeping with the report released by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) last month, the University will reopen union negotiations to boost wages for the school’s 1,000 lowest-paid service employees to at least $10.83 to $11.30 per hour—but will not implement a mandatory wage floor...
...after six months of research and debate, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) submitted its report and recommendations regarding low-wage labor conditions at Harvard to President Lawrence H. Summers. The committee’s findings confirmed what many of us already suspected: Real wages for Harvard workers have declined in the last decade, while the number of employees earning poverty-level wages has increased. Soon, Summers will tell us what, if anything, he will do about this...
...employed as custodians, dining hall staff, security guards and parking attendants. Nearly three out of four low-wage laborers at Harvard are recent immigrants and people of color; more than a third lack a high school degree. In an attempt to help alleviate these bleak conditions of poverty, the HCECP has recommended a one-time wage increase to between $10.83 and $11.20 per hour, a reduction in co-payment charges for health benefits, and a “parity wage” provision so that subcontracted, or “outsourced,” employees are paid the same wage...
...were disappointed by the president’s recent statement that a response to the HCECP report may take weeks. We recognize that this is not a decision that should be made lightly. Yet an indefinite delay is extremely disheartening for the campus community. This issue has been simmering for far too long, and a resolution is needed...
...HCECP report, released in December, recommends that the University increase wages to at least $10.83 to $11.30 per hour for all service employees, and establish parity wages for subcontracted employees...