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...Labor unions are protesting Harvard's awarding of the Lowell Hall renovation contract to non-union labor...
Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has repeatedly ignored union concerns and continues to do many projects with non-union labor, said Mark L. Erlich, the business manager and financial secretary of Carpenters Local 40. "Lowell is the straw that broke the camel's back...
Erlich said the use of non-union labor on the Lowell Hall project, worth about $2.5 million, violates the spirit of labor-management cooperation which Harvard entered when it agreed to the Project Labor Agreement...
...their response to Lat's questions, several workers expressed dissatisfaction not only with the difficult working conditions but also with the Project Labor Agreement signed between Harvard and all building trades unions. In this agreement, workers take a ten percent pay cut and other concessionary contract language in exchange for all union conditions on certain projects. Since Harvard still does some of its own work with non-union workers, some of us feel that the agreement is too one-sided...
...surprisingly, labor has scored its biggest gains in recent years in work places untroubled by foreign competition. While government employees were virtually non-union in 1946, 37% of the country's 6.6 million public workers are card-carrying members today. "You don't import your government from Hong Kong, do you?" says Daniel Mitchell, a labor expert at UCLA. Among private- sector unions, the Service Employees' International, whose membership includes janitors and hospital orderlies, has grown from 625,000 in 1980 to more than 1 million. While that growth reflects intensive union efforts, organizer Andy Stern also credits the increases...