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...Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, a long-time PSLM leader, says that the demise of the union means that no one is left to fight for the improvements in conditions that the WBPP promises to extend to workers across the University...
...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...
...Outsourcing is still an easy way for Harvard to undercut the power of unions,” MacKinnon says. “It’s an even more important area for us to be pushing back on. It’s always the way Harvard has avoided paying higher wages and actually being responsible for the workers who are doing the work of the university...
...passes the cost along to the consumer. In Austin, Texas, local businesses maintain 84 free wi-fi hot spots networked together, and the companies split the cost between them; in theory, they make the money back by attracting bandwidth-hungry customers. "I like the idea of the technology," Richard Mackinnon, president of the Austin Wireless City Project, says of Spokane's HotZone. "The problem is more with the finances behind it. When you have the Zone, you're reduced to a single player: one big person has to pay for everything. That person is going to be tempted to recoup...
...Having the human resources head report directly to Summers gives him more control,” said Mackinnon, who is also a Crimson editor. “Summers has a really mixed record and sometimes an awful record of responding to workers’ concerns. So it’s worrying that he’ll have more direct control...