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...process of handing over services like maintenance, dining and security to private companies, who take care of the bureaucratic and administrative details involved in hiring decisions, wage and benefits scales and allocation of labor. The companies decide who goes where and what they need to function, in other words, while the University can focus on other things...
...three-year movement begun in 1998 which culminated with 50 members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) occupying Mass. Hall for 21 days. PSLM demanded a wage floor for all Harvard workers, and a stop to the trend of outsourcing. The activists drew national media attention and an army of supporters who camped out in tents in Harvard Yard until the University promised to reexamine its labor policy...
...group of faculty, students and union leaders officially known as the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy that was organized in response to the sit-in. Harvard labor economist Lawrence F. Katz chaired the committee, which blamed the use of outside contractors for driving down campus wages in its influential report to the University President...
Although all of the remaining seven guards were promised jobs with the contractor, not a single one of them took the University up on its offer. Thus, the specter of outsourcing had emerged for the first time since 2001, when the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) protested the practice in a series of rallies tied to their Living Wage Campaign. Back then, labor-related buzzwords like “outsourcing” and “parity” were on everyone’s lips, thanks to the vocal, sometimes antagonizing tactics of PSLM...
Concentration choice may be postponed from the spring of freshman year until the fall of sophomore year, while the calendar might be altered so that the fall semester begins after Labor Day and ends before students leave for winter break, he said...