Word: hcecp
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...part-time work to full-time positions, and taking new measures to ease the process of union organizing —would take a far greater commitment from the University than simply imposing a wage floor. Regardless of what happens after the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) releases its report in a month’s time, the living wage campaign has already transformed its public presence from a single-issue lobbying group into a movement focused on perennial issues and engaged in a near-permanent effort to amend the University’s labor policies...
...central issue of the living wage campaign now appears to be the practice of outsourcing. The preliminary report released by HCECP was in many ways a primer on the history of outsourcing at Harvard. In the past ten years, Harvard has begun to use outside contractors in place of a directly-hired workforce in areas such as security and custodial services, a change that has normally been accompanied by a significant decrease in wages and benefits for the outsourced workers. Nearly half of the living wage campaign’s recent newsletter was devoted to the perils that outsourcing poses...
...course, the living wage has not been abandoned by the living wage campaign, and when the HCECP releases its report in late December the proposal of a wage floor will certainly return to the limelight. But the change in tone is visibly evident from the muted participation in the debate over the living wage, which by and large seems to have devolved into an occasional shouting match between PSLM and the Harvard Objectivist Club. A message board created a week ago by the HCECP, intended to allow public comment and discussion of wage issues, contains only four messages...
According to data gathered by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), approximately 290 Harvard custodians represented by SEIU currently make less than the $10.68 per hour the City of Cambridge defines as a local living wage...
...terms of negotiations with Harvard are still unclear, as the University is currently waiting on the report of the HCECP. This group, charged by former President Neil L. Rudenstine with gathering data and making recommendations to President Lawrence H. Summers on Harvard’s labor issues, distributed preliminary data on Oct. 22 and will release its full report and findings...