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...least, such was the impression given by one of the concurring statements to the report of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP). The statement—signed by both of the committee’s PSLM members, among others—quotes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the effect that “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family...
...goal is to keep families fed and clothed, available public aid should be ignored. And finally there are studies that rely on “expert budgets,” which in turn are based on individual, normative assessments of what constitutes deprivation. One such expert told the HCECP that a basic budget for a 4-person Boston family was $51,000 a year, an income greater than that of the median American family and well into the 99th percentile for the world’s population...
When the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) released its recommendations on the outsourcing of workers and the implementation of a living wage last month, it contributed the latest chapter in the struggle that has seen thousands of people call upon the University to recognize its moral imperative to treat low-wage service workers with the dignity they deserve as human beings and as full members of the Harvard community. On Jan. 18, the formal comment period on the committee’s report ends, leaving the decision to enact the recommendations up to the University?...
...individuals who served as members of the HCECP, we firmly believe that Summers can and should recognize the significance of the opportunity before him. We believe the only way to guarantee that poverty wages do not become an issue in the near future is to regard the committee’s recommendations critically, in the spirit befitting an academic institution such as Harvard. First, Summers should honor the positive step forward that our recommendations represent by instituting a policy of wage parity between direct and outsourced employees and raising starting wages above $11.30 per hour until contracts are renegotiated...
Faisal I. Chaudhry is a Harvard Law School student and a member of PSLM. Edward Childs is chief shop steward for the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union Local 26 and a cook in the Adams House dining hall. Both were members of the HCECP...