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Each year, about 50 to 70 of these students—known collectively as the “Z-List” by admissions officers??opt to take a year off before matriculation or are accepted on the condition that they take a year...
...their wage is $20.39 and at neighboring MIT it’s $18.64 an hour. On their website you can also see worker testimonials. From Najeeb Hussain you will learn that “Because AlliedBarton and Harvard University are standing in the way of me and my fellow officers?? efforts to improve our jobs with the Service Employees International Union, I am now preparing to tell my eldest daughter that she cannot return to Rutgers University after her freshman year...
...hunger strike might seem like an extraordinary measure for what, at first glance, appears to be an unfortunate but omnipresent issue of underpaid workers. However, the degree of underpayment of Harvard’s security officers??compounded with the consistent resistance Harvard has shown to alleviating the problem—renders the hunger strike a legitimate and commendable form of protest...
...would dispute that our security officers?? wages, which force employees to work full-time seven days per week or to choose between buying food and medicine for their family, are inhumane. In 2002, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies declared that Harvard should not use outsourcing as a means to allow the veritable abuse of its workers, and Harvard codified this sentiment in its Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. Yet Harvard has been outsourcing its security officers since 1992, allowing the University to lower wages and shirk its committment to basic worker welfare...
While this may seem overly cynical about the state of labor relations at Harvard, it is obvious from looking at the track record of our administration that workers’ rights are simply not their priority—and the Harvard security officers?? labor struggle is a clear example of this...