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...high cost of living in Mass. Employers know that there is a lot of talent in the Boston area, but they also know that they can pay lower salaries if they operate in a state with a lower cost of living. Such “in-country outsourcing?? can force students to leave a place that many have become attached to. With property taxes as the state’s main source of income, this cycle is doomed to repeat itself. If the state government establishes a more progressive tax plan and uses those funds to promote affordable...

Author: By Robert D. Winikates | Title: State Politics Matter Regardless of Home State | 3/10/2006 | See Source »

...University up on its offer. Thus, the specter of outsourcing had emerged for the first time since 2001, when the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) protested the practice in a series of rallies tied to their Living Wage Campaign. Back then, labor-related buzzwords like “outsourcing?? and “parity” were on everyone’s lips, thanks to the vocal, sometimes antagonizing tactics of PSLM...

Author: By May Habib and Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Job Security? | 12/9/2004 | See Source »

...clear that if Harvard wishes to ensure that its workers do not ever live in poverty, it must establish a living wage, adjusted annually to inflation; guarantee full health benefits; ensure union representation, and the right to collective bargaining, for all workers; reverse the trend of “outsourcing?? by hiring service and trade workers directly; and create an inclusive committee to oversee the successful implementation of these measures...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: Fair Harvard? | 1/31/2002 | See Source »

Instead of an explicit ban on outsourcing, he said ensuring parity would take away the University’s incentive to contract out work as a cost-cutting mechanism while maintaining the positive aspects of outsourcing??“innovation, productivity and competition,” Katz said...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Committee Urges Harvard Pay Raises | 1/4/2002 | See Source »

...committee was charged by former University President Neil L. Rudenstine to research labor issues—including a living wage, worker benefits and outsourcing??and advise Summers on a set of recommendations...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Committee Urges Harvard Pay Raises | 1/4/2002 | See Source »

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