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Certainly the change will bring some benefits. UNICCO??€™s more frequent service will be a welcome improvement over Dorm Crew’s understandable but unpleasant lack of assiduity. Furthermore, UNICCO??€™s workers alert students in advance of their visits such that they can plan around them—generally not the case with Dorm Crew’s notoriously erratic schedule. Indeed, Dorm Crew should mimic their professional counterparts and establish in the various Houses timetables to which they can remain relatively faithful...
What can potentially be most treacherous in this transition is that Harvard’s money, or more specifically a fraction of the students’ room fees, is lining UNICCO??€™s pockets. Part of Harvard’s expenses associated with the cleaning of bathrooms by the outside janitors ends up in the hands of UNICCO??€™s management—not Harvard student workers and captains. Moreover, UNICCO??€™s poor record in matters of wages and benefits has frequently incurred the ire of its workers and labor advocates, as evinced by last October?...
...Connor informed Dunster residents by e-mail this week that UNICCO??€”Boston’s largest janitorial contractor—would take over cleaning duties for the 60 bathrooms located in entryways A through...
Although at Harvard UNICCO now pays higher wages to its janitors, wages equivalent to those earned by Harvard’s direct employees, Harvard still plays a role in supporting UNICCO??€™s exploitative practices by continuing its contract with it. UNICCO can continue its exploitative practices only due to the support of institutions like Harvard, which provide it with capital through contracts...
...janitors’ demands. Two weeks ago, Acting Governor Jane Swift announced that UNICCO will lose its contract to clean the State House if it does not meet the janitors’ demands. Earlier in the strike, the California Public Employees’ pension fund decided to terminate UNICCO??€™s contract in a Boston building which it is part-owner, and it is considering doing the same in two Washington buildings where it is majority owner...