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This week, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) released its preliminary findings. This page has repeatedly expressed its support for a living wage, and the data, which indicate that many Harvard workers’ real wages have fallen in recent years, give significant cause for concern...
Nevertheless, if its final report is to be taken seriously by the administration, we feel that much more data will be needed before HCECP is able to make its recommendations regarding Harvard’s employment practices. Such data should include information about worker benefits, the role of casual workers at Harvard and other issues that were not addressed in the committee’s preliminary report...
...resignation of Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 has raised concerns about the committee’s dealings, and her criticisms of the committee, if accurate, cast in doubt HCECP’s ability to produce a fair outcome. In light of these concerns, HCECP must review its process and make the changes necessary to address the issues that Hoxby has raised...
...Clearly, HCECP has not been as open to community input as possible. Its recent meeting at the ARCO Forum was ostensibly an opportunity for members of HCECP to hear public comment on its initial findings. But in choosing to wait until the day of the meeting to release its report, the HCECP largely defeated that purpose. One day is hardly enough time for the Harvard community to digest the contents of a technical 30-page report and provide thoughtful commentary...
...movements were not an affront to democracy; they were an embodiment of it. On the local level, last spring’s sit-in played an equally important role in bringing more voices into our community’s decision making process at Harvard. We must remember that the HCECP itself is a result of this democratic mobilization...