Word: laborative
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...busting” on the part of the University, people working for Harvard’s contractors were being shortchanged in wages, benefits and working environments while the University’s own employees enjoyed much better conditions. Outside contractors should be held to the same high standards, the labor activists insisted, and until those standards were properly enforced, Harvard was wrong to support them...
...living wage effort demanded Harvard use more scrutiny in its oversight of contractors, and when the sit-in ended in May of 2001, University officials began discussing potential reforms with labor specialists and union organizers. Although University President Lawrence H. Summers made no definitive promises, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy (HCECP)—convened with workers, students and administrators after the sit-in—used strong language against outsourcing to lower-paid workers in its report to the president in January...
...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...
...principle, the parity policy was put in place to protect inhouse workers from cheap subcontracted labor, but critics claim that Harvard does not know if all the contractors are complying. Members of Harvard’s union community also allege that the University systematically took apart the security union after...
After a round of in-house guard layoffs two years ago resulted in worker and student protests, James A. LaBua, Deputy Director of the Office of Labor and Employee Relations (OLER), which oversees all labor policy implementation and contract negotiations, said that a mix of in-house guards and contracted guards wasn’t optimal for the security of the University...