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...Everybody feels so good,” said Rocio Saenz, deputy trustee for Service Employees International Union Local 254 (SEIU), which represents Harvard janitors. “Harvard is taking a great step on workers’ rights...
Yesterday’s agreement came on the heels of an escalation in protest tactics by SEIU and students in Harvard’s Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM). Nine students, workers and labor officials were arrested by police Tuesday afternoon during a protest after they blocked traffic on Mass. Ave. in front of the Holyoke Center, which is home to Harvard’s Office of Labor and Employee Relations...
...SEIU organizer Jairo Dias said he was “100 percent sure” the arrests had prompted Harvard’s movement at the bargaining table, because “they could realize the next step would be worse...
...nine arrested were Stephen N. Smith ’02, Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, Ian Simmons ’98-’00, Harvard Law students Jermaine J. Hughes and Minsu D. Longiaru, janitor Frank Morley, SEIU organizer Jill Hurst, Massachusetts AFL-CIO organizer Kathy Cassavant, and Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers organizer Robert Kelly...
...SEIU hopes to influence Harvard to raise janitors’ base wages to $14 an hour in today’s contract negotiations at the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street, union officials have said. The negotiations are in their sixth week, and the two sides have come to little agreement on new wage or benefit provisions, despite resolving many other issues, representatives of both sides have confirmed...