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...President Lawrence H. Summers continues to ruminate the suggestions of the Katz Committee, any further discussion about the living wage should center on the fundamental premise that people should lead dignified and decent lives. Moreover, Harvard has the financial and intellectual capacity to reflect on the state of society and on its own institutional culture. It should therefore constantly consider how to improve the lives of all members of its own and the wider community...
Since it was released Dec. 19, the Katz report has brought much attention to Harvard’s practice of outsourcing. Presumably, Harvard uses outsourcing as a way to avoid paying above-market wages and benefits to its employees. There is no denying that the argument against this practice has a certain appeal. That is, if one accepts the premise that exceptionally wealthy institutions like Harvard ought to share some of that wealth with their workers, it follows that institutions like Harvard should not use outsourcing as a way to circumvent that obligation. There are plenty of good arguments both...
Ministry officials say it looked bad for Israel to do so little to investigate Holocaust funds at a time when Swiss banks are under pressure from Jewish groups to unearth dormant accounts. A recent book by Bar-Ilan University professor Yossi Katz asserts that institutions like the Jewish National Fund, which was set up to purchase land for Jews in what was then Palestine, and Bank Leumi, one of Israel's biggest banks, failed to examine land records and abandoned accounts for Holocaust money. Last April, a Knesset committee finally pushed Israel's banks to audit these accounts...
...Katz Committees belief that unions will be able to set the standards for wages that can then be applied to outsourced workers is more than a little naive. Union workers will still be threatened by the presence of lower-paid contract workers, will continue to be bargained into lower wage brackets. Harvard cannot simply assume that unions, which the Katz Committee admits have weakened substantially in the last 10 years, will be able to effectively bargain under these conditions for appropriate wages. That is one of the reasons why Harvard must go beyond the committee recommendations and make...
Filling in the moral void around outsourcing is the Katz Committee's major accomplishment. Now, Summers must not only take up their ideological banner, but turn it into the standard of an effective policy...