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After working 15 months without a raise or a new contract, Harvard's Police Department's patrol officers are restless. Contract negotiations with Harvard have broken down, and the police are now taking their case to the people they have been hired to protect. This weekend, the patrol officers' union paid for a two-page color advertisement in The Crimson and hired a plane to fly a banner requesting public support for the officers...
...past two years, the University has demonstrated an embarrassing inability to deal fairly with its unionized workers. And throughout the contract negotiations, Harvard administrators have relentlessly nickel-and-dimed those workers. For the University to play hardball with a workforce as vital to the University as its patrol officers is not only outrageous, it is a threat to the safety of the University...
...patrol officers' case is another textbook example of a union's serving no one's interest but its own and the staff's falling sucker to pathetic advertising...
Officer Robert Kotowski, head of the police association, says the University's attempts to inform the public about campus safety are seriously flawed. Many of the most dangerous incidents are downplayed by the University, and Harvard, officers charge, points out a supposed lack of hazardous duty when patrol officers negotiate for raises...
...added a uniformed bicycle patrol...It makes it easier to get around in traffic and they tend not to be noticed. Also, our cops are writing reports in cruisers, instead of at the station, and this allows them to stay on the streets," Gaffney said...