Word: sodexho
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...issue of more secure security gained even greater importance with administrators after a pair of sexual assaults last winter was traced to Geremias Cruz Ramos, a Holyoke Center custodial employee hired by Sodexho USA, a private contractor. The arrest quickly led to the current policy that requires security and custodial contractors to perform background checks (CORI) on all new employees. Harvard has had a long-standing policy of performing background checks on its own employees...
...says. “There are certainly contractors out there who are unhappy with the parity system and I’m sure there are contractors who are violating the agreement. Some of the smaller contractors, we really worry about them cutting corners. With the larger companies, UNICCO, Sodexho, they may not be really forward-looking companies but they care about their reputation...
While an October 2004 vendor summary shows that there are about 30 such contractors in all, Harvard’s largest, most visible providers are Sodexho USA, which supplies workers in food service; UNICCO, which handles maintenance; and the Allied-Barton, which employs all security guards on campus. Sodexho and UNICCO workers are unionized in HEREIU and SIEU, respectively. Allied workers are not unionized...
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Ramos was an employee of the custodial contractor Sodexho...