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...result of the University’s negotiations with the janitor’s union surpassed the expectations those of us who prepared the Harvard Committee on Employment and 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...
Anyone claiming the University somehow failed to live up to the report in these negotiations is not telling the truth. In fact the only thing that did not live up to the cooperative spirit of the HCECP was the public nature of the negotiations, which served as an encouragement to gamesmanship, not bargaining...
...weeks of negotiation with the administration (News, “Janitors Wage Still Not a Living Wage,” Mar. 4). I noted that the new base wage exceeded the various living wage standards set by the City of Cambridge, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) and the PSLM itself, and further that union leader Rocio Saenz called the contract “a great step on workers rights.” I wondered if this was the end of the line for our intrepid band of demonstrators. No more marches around University Hall? No more...
PSLM members have maintained that just as their call for a $10.25 wage was meant only as a starting point, the HCECP recommendation of a $10.83 to $11.30 range was not intended to be effectively a wage ceiling...
Still, the wages outlined in the new contract will raise the pay of most Harvard janitors. According to the HCECP report, 89 percent of contracted custodial workers and 82 percent of Harvard custodial workers earned less than $10 an hour last year...