Word: oit
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Heated protests continued this week as local union electricians picketed Harvard's Office for Information Technology (OIT), complaining that the office employs "substandard" non-union contractors...
...oversee its current building renovations on Cambridge and North Harvard Streets, OIT hired Pyramid Electric corporation and Christakis Electric Company--companies which the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers claims provide poor working conditions...
Approximately 20 union members come to campus daily to picket OIT. The electricians also pass out pamphlets that describe pyramid's and Christakis's practices as " immoral and unfair" and accuse the companies of seeking "profits at the expense of employees...
...OIT Director Stephen C. Hall defended hisoffice's hiring decision. OIT publicizes the termsof its contracting jobs to attract bidders, Hallsaid. When choosing among offers, he said, OITconsiders other factors besides a company's unionor non-union status...
...University already has a head start in terms of physical preparation for installing a network. When OIT workers rewired the University's telephone system in 1990, they also installed wires in every phone jack capable of linking personal computers to network cables...