Word: laborative
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...labor landscape as it currently exists would be virtually unrecognizable to Harvard workers and administrators from the ’70s, says Professor of Economics Lawrence C. Katz, when virtually all Harvard custodial, dining and security workers were employed directly by the University...
Even with the high wages and low productivity, it was years before the bureaucratic inertia of “every tub on its own bottom”—University-speak for the decentralization of labor policies across departments and school—was overcome and labor policies were centralized, an essential first step to contracting out work...
...move to the centralization of labor policies culminated in the creation of the Vice-Presidency of Human Resources, a position with some authority over the human resources departments across the University and reporting directly to President Summers...
...labor situation at the University seems stable, with no appearance of imminent conflict. But union workers are not ruling out the possibility that more outsourcing will occur in the near future...
That potential has raised flags with labor activists on campus, many of whom have recently spoken out against outsourcing at rallies sponsored by the Harvard Social Forum and the new guard of PSLM, who have once again placed the issue of outsourcing at the top of their to-do list for this school year...