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When the members of Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) proposed their parity plan, they were aware that Harvard’s superior bargaining power, if left unchecked, could easily push workers’ wages back down to unacceptable levels. In order to “ensure that a threatened bargaining impasse is not used to lower the real value of the parity wage,” HCECP included an anti-union busting clause that “the parity wage will be adjusted upward annually by the rate of increase of the U.S. consumer price index?...
...fair bargaining provision is one of the most important recommendations that the HCECP made and Summers has ignored it completely. Not only did Summers fail to adopt the provision, he neglected even to give a reason for his refusal to do so. Summers’ rejection of the fair bargaining provision implies that he might use Harvard’s bargaining power in order to push wages back down as soon as he can get away with...
...When the HCECP recommended wage and benefit parity between regular and outsourced workers, it meant that both their wages and benefits should be equal. In his response to the HCECP’s report, Summers said he believed these workers should receive “substantially equivalent” wages and benefits, but tried to leave himself some wiggle room when it came to giving outsourced workers decent healthcare...
...recommendations of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), adopted largely by University President Lawrence H. Summers in January, required that “parity” be established between the wages of Harvard employees and subcontracted workers with similar jobs...
...Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP)’s recommendations, adopted largely by University President Lawrence H. Summers, required that “parity” be established between the wages of Harvard employees and subcontracted workers with similar jobs...