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...facto union busting,” and other such nefarious deeds. Other SfS complaints include the security guards’ “low morale” and “stress” resulting from the company’s “aggressive” negotiating tactics. SfS’s response? Bringing protesters to meetings and staging a hunger strike—some might consider these “aggressive” negotiating tactics. At the start of the strike, activists claimed that problem was the unequal wages paid to Harvard’s in-house guards...
When University officials finally met with the students on Wednesday, the protesters were convinced that things were starting to fall into place and that hunger striking had been an effective tactic...
...administration—crucial partners in the true mission of the UC.Aside from overstepping its bounds in passing its initial resolution, the UC is in no position to formally support a method as radical as hunger striking in legislation or in action. As controversial as the issue was, the tactic of a hunger strike was even more so among the student body, with e-mail lists abuzz in debate about Stand for Security’s methods. The UC leadership’s decision to put its institutional weight behind the hunger strike not only made an inappropriate political statement...
...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 Harvard’s hand.Though Harvard does not employ AlliedBarton security workers directly, and thus has no legal obligation to intervene in the negotiations currently being conducted by AlliedBarton and SEIU, we believe that it has a moral obligation, as an AlliedBarton client...
...month in prison—was wildly disproportionate to the alleged wrongdoings of the protesters.That’s not to say that we condone the type of disruptive and ineffective protest the four protesters staged, which we believe detracts from actual dialogue. A more effective and appropriate tactic would have been to ask pointed questions within the framework of the event, such as questions asked of former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami at his IOP appearance last fall which garnered national media attention. But even if one thinks that this particular protest was not in good taste, the fundamental right...