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...statements from the U.S. hailed Sunday's election of the "pro-American" Nicolas Sarkozy as France's new President, painting him as healer-elect of the trans-Atlantic friendship damaged by the Iraq war. Even the French themselves have begun to see him as a harbinger of a closer relationship with the U.S. But while the new President's foreign policy will feature some differences from that of his predecessor - even some surprises - analysts have poured cold water on the idea that in foreign policy, Sarkozy will be the "anti-Chirac...
...view, it properly defines and describes the limits of the University’s relationship with vendors and their employees. Indeed, the SEIU has cited the program—described in full at http://laborrelations.harvard.edu/olr/parity.shtml—as a model during its negotiations with contract custodial employees at other campuses...
...security guards working on the Harvard campus, voluntarily recognized the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as the exclusive bargaining representative for its employees working at Harvard. AlliedBarton and the SEIU recently began to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement that will address the set of interconnected issues that define the relationship between an employer and its employees...
Harvard has no legal role in this process and has declined to inject itself or otherwise assume responsibility over the employment relationship...
This progressive policy, of course, is not a substitute for the good faith negotiations that must occur in collective bargaining. It is ultimately for those with the most direct stake—the employer and its employees—to determine how best to arrange their relationship. In the case of AlliedBarton, the employees are represented by the SEIU, a highly effective advocate for workers nationwide. Their agreement must, in the end, represent a balance of multiple considerations that the parties themselves are best-positioned to resolve. Harvard should not, need not, and will not intervene in this process...