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...protest, co-sponsored by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 and the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), took place in front of the Holyoke Center, where Harvard’s Labor and Employee Relations Office is located...
...really just want Harvard to take responsibility for what it’s done,” SEIU Local 615 organizer Courtney Snegroff said...
...model Edwards and others want to replicate is the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) Justice for Janitors campaign, which over the past 20 years has helped to raise wages for workers in 27 cities, including Boston, Houston and Pittsburgh. Last week SEIU organized Justice for Janitors Day, with public protests in cities around the country. One of the key battlegrounds of the new offensive is Cincinnati, which gained 8,400 service jobs in 2004 alone. "It's a crucial test," says Stephen Lerner, head of SEIU's property workers' division. "What happens in Cincinnati is more of a lens...
...city appears to have benefited too. In Pittsburgh neighborhoods with high concentrations of janitors and other service workers, high school graduation rates and home ownership rates have risen steadily over the past two decades, according to Census data. Among janitors surveyed by SEIU, the rate of home ownership had grown to 57% by 2005, an increase of nearly 20% since 1990. Meanwhile the number of families below the poverty line has fallen...
...More than 50 percent have been with the University for at least six years.Common MisconceptionsSome advocate an agreement that is comparable to the one reached between Harvard and the union representing our custodial workers last fall. It’s important to understand that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)contract was designed as a long-term agreement that will bring the hourly wages paid to Harvard custodians back in line with the custodial wages paid by other universities in the Boston area. The same wage gap does not apply to the case of HUDS employees. Another issue raised...