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...Nicolai, director of the higher education division of SEIU Local 615, the union that organizes Harvard’s Unicco workers, spoke in support of Decker’s resolution...
Unicco says that SEIU is “leveling exaggerated, false, and inflammatory accusations against the company...
...hunger strike to protest unfair working conditions and low wages. The janitors are employed by UNICCO Service Company, one of the nation’s largest private facilities maintenance companies. Harvard outsources much of its janitorial work to UNICCO. The janitors are working with the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), which helped janitors at Harvard achieve a living wage in 2002 and last semester negotiated a $5 per hour pay rise. SEIU National Communications Coordinator Renee Asher said in a phone-call to the SLAM members and Miami janitors that Harvard students have a unique ability to influence Miami President...
...have also alleged unfair reprisals for their attempts to unionize—were supposed to participate in the protest. But Allied workers said they decided to pull out after their management sent a letter to workers on March 30 saying that they and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) “have agreed to meet and engage in a constructive dialogue concerning labor relations matters,” surrounding officers at Harvard. Harvard outsources many of its security needs to Allied, which in turn employs between 250 and 300 officers on Harvard’s campuses. Paul R. Kane...
...Frustrated by what they say is a lack of mechanisms to express grievances such as the withholding of wages and frequent shift changes, guards with Allied, the nation’s largest private security firm, have been trying to unionize for about a year. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 seeks to represent the AlliedBarton security guards. SEIU organizer Emerson Harris says there are about 250 to 300 Allied officers working at locations across the University. The union and some workers have sent three petitions to Allied’s management requesting that they meet with them about...