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...average hourly wage for campus members of HERE increased 20 percent between September 2000 and September 2005, including a 4.3 percent hike last year. Their median hourly wage increased 17.7 percent during the same period. Harvard pays higher wages to members of HERE than their unionized colleagues and non-union peers receive at virtually all other academic and private employers in the area, including the M.I.T. and hotels in greater Boston.One result is that the turnover rate among HUDS employees has declined by 25 percent in recent years. More than 50 percent have been with the University for at least...
Herms concedes that one of his primary motives is to reverse a Harvard policy that replaced union security guards with outsourced non-union guards. By having access to more information about crime across campus, Herms says he hopes to demonstrate a direct correlation between outsourced guards and increased crime...
...There would be no way to monitor if people were getting laid off or their hours cut because of the policy because [Sodexho is] a non-union shop,” Woolman said...
...while we were in the middle of contract negotiations the University informed the union that they meant to layoff all seventeen remaining union guards. I asked for the help of Progressive Student Labor Movement and an e-mail campaign was mounted along with a public demonstration in the front of Holyoke Center. Those actions caused the University to reconsider their position. The Union conducted impact bargaining concurrently with the main contract negotiations. In the end, we settled the main contract and the university presented to the union a proposal for severance packages, also we were able to move several guards...
...University officials] say that they have to move to one security vendor, but it’s no coincidence that it’s a non-union company...