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Summers needs to stop stalling; he can and must eliminate poverty-wage jobs on campus. When the University’s negotiating team comes back to the bargaining table, we expect it to take janitors??€™ demands seriously. And to ensure that it does, now more than ever, students and faculty must show solidarity with Harvard janitors in their fight for jobs with justice...
Thursday’s march to Summers’ home was a temporary disruption to demonstrate our commitment to the janitors??€™ demands. Yet our disruption pales in comparison to the intrusion that Summers makes everyday in the homes of hundreds of workers through his poverty wage policies. The employment policies that he maintains, via his lackeys at the negotiating table, invade the homes and family lives of hundreds of workers throughout the Boston region everyday...
Contract negotiations between the janitors??€™ union, the Service Employees International Union Local 254, and the Harvard administration began on Jan. 22, eight months ahead of schedule, due to the agreement that resulted from last spring’s student sit-in in Mass. Hall. During the last three weeks, we have witnessed these negotiations firsthand, and we have been extremely disappointed. The process has not been the civil exchange between honest and respectful partners that Summers and the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies have implied it is in their repeated exaltations of the collective bargaining process...
...offers have proven unacceptable to the dozen workers on the union’s bargaining team who know that their families need more than an extra dollar and change to get by. Most currently earn less than $10 per hour. These wage and benefit proposals degrade the value of janitors??€™ work and insult their families’ needs. Harvard’s intransigence at the bargaining table is so offensive that Edgar Barrios, a Guatemalan immigrant worker at the Business School who is on Local 254’s negotiating team told us, “The management...
Harvard’s offers are also unacceptable to many students, faculty and community members who have been rallying for economic justice for the last three years. While Harvard has quadrupled its endowment and increased tuition by more than 50 per cent since 1992, it has cut janitors??€™ real wages by more than 30 percent during the same period. Moreover, other area universities with much smaller endowments pay their custodians $14 to $16 per hour; Harvard’s $11 offer doesn’t even measure up to that standard and guarantees continued poverty to campus janitors...