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Six weeks ago, I had the privilege to speak at a public forum sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), the group formed after last spring’s student sit-in in Massachusetts Hall to advise University President Lawrence H. Summers on a set of...
Members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM), who helped organize the rally, said it was held at the behest of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254, which represents Harvard’s unionized janitors. SEIU will be negotiating a new contract with the University early next yearâ?...
Even though the venue was familiar from last year’s sit-in, the rally bore the marks of SEIU’s recent actions at Tufts, in which the union obtained a wage floor, employer-supported health insurance and a promise of job security following several months of...
The relatively small speaker list at the rally included such sit-in mainstays as State Representative Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 and Kennedy School of Government Professor Marshall L. Ganz.
The committee, convened by former President Neil L. Rudenstine in the aftermath of the sit-in, is charged with making recommendations to University President Lawrence H. Summers on Harvard’s employment standards. With the report due on Dec. 19, PSLM member say they plan to press the issue...