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...group of faculty, students and union leaders officially known as the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy that was organized in response to the sit-in. Harvard labor economist Lawrence F. Katz chaired the committee, which blamed the use of outside contractors for driving down campus wages in its influential report to the University President...
Today, critics worry that the University is inching backwards from the promises it made following PSLM’s famous 21-day sit-in of Mass. Hall. Administration officials have admitted that the University’s implementation of those recommendations has been more difficult to enforce and monitor than originally hoped, mostly because of the University’s decentralized hiring and firing practices. Back in 2001, PSLM’s main concern was that Harvard was outsourcing work to private contractors—whose low-paid workers were not allowed to unionize—to save money...
...living wage effort demanded Harvard use more scrutiny in its oversight of contractors, and when the sit-in ended in May of 2001, University officials began discussing potential reforms with labor specialists and union organizers. Although University President Lawrence H. Summers made no definitive promises, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy (HCECP)—convened with workers, students and administrators after the sit-in—used strong language against outsourcing to lower-paid workers in its report to the president in January...
...parity policy was put in place to protect inhouse workers from cheap subcontracted labor, but critics claim that Harvard does not know if all the contractors are complying. Members of Harvard’s union community also allege that the University systematically took apart the security union after the sit...
...abounds among vendors about what they should be paying their workers and the kind of insurance they are supposed to provide them. But, administrators say, the move to private contractors is about efficiency, not union belligerency. Wages and benefits for Harvard employees are higher than they were before the sit-in and many of the workers employed by contractors are now unionized as well. But questions remain about how the University is monitoring the implementation of the parity policy and what kind of steps they are taking to increase the effectiveness of their oversight...