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Coalition members, including those participating in a hunger strike to pressure the University to intervene in the negotiations between AlliedBarton and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 615, have repeatedly criticized both Harvard and AlliedBarton for being unresponsive to their demands...
During negotiations earlier on Thursday, AlliedBarton,the subcontractor that employs Harvard’s guards, extended an offer to the guards, which they deemed unsatisfactory, according to Lauren L. Jacobs, the director of organizing at SEIU...
...starting wage for AlliedBarton offers is currently $12.68, according to figures released by the Stand for Security Coalition, the group leading the campaign for higher wages. The SEIU is asking for a minimum starting wage of $15 per hour...
...good faith negotiations that must occur in collective bargaining. It is ultimately for those with the most direct stake—the employer and its employees—to determine how best to arrange their relationship. In the case of AlliedBarton, the employees are represented by the SEIU, a highly effective advocate for workers nationwide. Their agreement must, in the end, represent a balance of multiple considerations that the parties themselves are best-positioned to resolve. Harvard should not, need not, and will not intervene in this process...
...security guards employed by AlliedBarton Security Services (AlliedBarton), to which Harvard outsources most of its security needs. Recently, student members of Stand For Security began a hunger strike to call attention to the plight of AlliedBarton security workers on campus, who unionized under the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) last December and are now negotiating their first contract through SEIU. While we agree with many of Stand For Security’s aims and its general spirit of promoting the welfare of Harvard’s workers, we cannot support its extreme tactic of using a hunger strike to force...