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...heart rate is elevated, but his pressure is still low and his urine output has dropped off, doctor. His CBC and chemistries are okay and his temp is only 99. He looks very pale and sick and he's going crazy, agitated. He knows where he is but he won't stay still. I can't get him to stop picking at his dressing...
...works, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of.” While Gary said she loves her current job, she recognized that working in the film industry will likely leave her marooned on successive studio lots. “Really, you’re...a temp worker on all these little projects,” she says, “and you never know where your next job will be.” But she added, “You’re doing the most amazing thing ever, and you love...
...workers over the summer. Many were chosen for custodial work or jobs with Harvard’s Buildings and Grounds division, and a select few got to remain in the open dining halls. But ever since Harvard contracted this work out to Unicco and other hiring outfits, less-expensive temp workers have taken up summer custodial jobs, leaving dining hall workers without over 100 positions that were once available to them. According to Edward B. Childs, an Adams House cook and one of the stewards of this movement, the changes began roughly 15 years ago, and, little by little, have...
...Unicco began outsourcing summer jobs, dining hall workers were employed primarily with the Custodial and Building and Grounds Departments, because when students leave campus, these groups take on their major projects. Now, a few fortunate workers are placed in the mailroom, but all custodial and maintenance jobs go to temp workers. Harvard should revert to the old paradigm asking Unicco to prioritize Harvard dining hall workers in the summer employment search. Inflexible hours due to part-time commitments to Harvard and the shrinking number of jobs in the service industry make it nearly impossible for current HUDS workers to tack...
While it might be more cost-effective for the College to cut corners by hiring Unicco’s temp workers over the summer and not granting its own employees better wages and conditions, Harvard’s obligations extend beyond purely economic ones. By addressing the issue of summer employment for dining hall workers as well as a living wage and more manageable kitchen conditions, the administration would merely be taking a necessary step in the direction of a welcoming and inclusive community...