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...report issued by the HCECP, widely known as the Katz Committee after its chairman, Harvard labor economist Professor Lawrence F. Katz, blamed the use of outside contractors for driving down wages on campus. It stated that “outsourcing should not be used to lower wages and weaken the unions representing Harvard’s employees.” Their recommendations included the Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP), which requires contractors to pay wages and benefits that are at least equal to those paid to comparably employed unionized Harvard workers...
...Katz says the story of the demise of Harvard’s security guard union is “a sad case...
...Setting up on their own was a huge strategic mistake on their part,” Katz says. “It allowed the university to just take them apart...
...Coming out of the Katz report, the ability of the unions to negotiate for wage and benefit improvements is even more important,” MacKinnon says. “Those unions basically have the responsibility to negotiate the wages of the outsourced workers, even those who aren’t their members...
...Prof. Katz, who says he checks on the implementation of his committee’s recommendations by reading annual reports such the OHR’s, praises the administration for “doing what they said they are going to do” —implementing the wage parity policy...