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...Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a workers’ organization with which the four women are affiliated, filed a grievance with Harvard shortly after the transfer occurred...
...With the security guards, it was an egregious case of breaking the union from the inside by going to outside guards,” he said, blaming a late 1990s split in the ranks—in which members left Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to form their own union—for the union’s later demise...
...three employees had been making $9.95 an hour when union organizer Aaron Bartley of SEIU Local 615, which represents most of Harvard’s in-house and contracted custodial workers, brought the matter to the OHR in Feb. 2003. The union wage at the time was $11.85 an hour...
Conversion from part to full time employment remains a huge issue for workers, since that change in status can trigger eligibility for benefits. Harvard has seen a 14 percent increase in its full-time custodial employees since 2002, moving toward the 60 percent full time employment negotiated by the SEIU, the custodians’ union. According to the Annual Report, the University is also “actively working” with its outside contractors to accomplish that same 60 percent rate for full time employment among outsourced employees...
...SEIU had been campaigning for more full-time positions since the previous winter, demanding that the seniority of long standing part-time employees be taken into account when job openings arise. As of last February, union representatives were meeting regularly with University officials to discuss the subject of seniority, but if the strong SEIU presence at a recent May Day labor rally in Harvard Yard is any indication, the conflict remains unresolved...