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Recent wage negotiations between Harvard University and janitors of the Service Employees International Union Local 254 (SEIU) were closed to the press. Consequently, many feared that precise details of the talks would never emerge...
...revealed here for the first time—has been assembled from their accounts. It documents exchanges between negotiators in two pivotal meetings. The first, which ended in an impasse, took place on Feb. 20. The second, at which agreement was reached after members of PSLM and SEIU engaged in a courageous act of civil disobedience, took place...
...seemed like prime time when negotiations with Harvard University threatened to collapse over pay and health benefits earlier this week. The Service Employees International Union Local 254 (SEIU) and Harvard had, during the six-week long negotiations, already settled some of the issues, such as overtime pay, vacation and sick leave, but stalled over the essentials: starting wages and health insurance...
...called “no strike” clauses are a common feature of labor contracts these days. Harvard has no strike clauses in almost all its labor contracts, according to the University’s chief labor negotiator David Jones. The SEIU blanket contract for Massachusetts also has a provision against striking during the term of the contract...
According to Jones, the SEIU voluntarily abandoned its efforts to change the wording of the no strike clause four weeks into negotiations. If this is true, the union made a big mistake. The SEIU should make it a priority to modify the striking ban in future contracts so they have the most freedom of protest possible. It is only through retaining the power to protest that Harvard workers will be able to achieve the promises of the Katz Committee. As should now be abundantly clear, power—not principle—speaks to the Harvard Corporation...