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...ALLIED AGAINST ALLIED The other component of SLAM’s campaign targets AlliedBarton, whose officers patrol Harvard’s campuses 24 hours a day. Fidel E. Solano, a security officer for AlliedBarton at Harvard, and Emerson Harris, an organizer for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 who is working with the SLAM campaign, spoke together to publicize AlliedBarton’s allegedly unfair policies toward worker unionization. Since the employees technically work for AlliedBarton and not Harvard, SEIU and SLAM plan on pressuring the University into applying its own pressure on the company to amend its practices...
Over 100 workers are already striking and nearly 100 medical school workers are set to walk out later this week, according to Eric J. Brakken, the organizing director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 11, a subset of the union that represents the Miami area...
Though the strikers and SEIU do not have specific monetary demands, they are “calling for the university to adopt a policy that it’s only going to hire responsible contractors who obey the law and pay a living wage,” Brakken said...
Though Student Labor Action Movement leader Adaner Usmani ’08 said that since Harvard’s workers belong to the SEIU and Miami’s workers do not, the schools’ situations are not analogous. He called the worker-student collaboration “heartening...
...union representing 340 Harvard janitors ratified a new six-year contract with the University on Friday that will gradually raise the starting wage for custodial workers to $18.50 per hour. After the two parties reached a tentative agreement late last Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 put the proposed deal to a vote among the janitors throughout the day Thursday. The janitors overwhelmingly approved the contract, with fewer than 10 workers voting against it, according to SEIU Local 615 spokeswoman Courtney Snegroff. “People are very satisfied,” she said. Harvard spokesman...