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...that 2.7 percent of full-time employees on the University's payroll are paid less than $10 an hour. But these figures hide the amount of outsourced employees that do janitorial work in some Harvard buildings and that have replaced the guards at the Houses. These workers, employees of UNICCO Service Company and Security Systems Incorporated, respectively, stand side-by-side Harvard payroll employees in kitchens, restaurants and some janitorial duties, yet have neither a $10-an-hour wage nor a clear voice to fight...
...outsourcing agency, not a group that represents the workers. It then gives the outsourcer the responsibility of managing and paying the workforce, in order to wash its hands of often acrimonious negotiations, as well as perhaps to improve living-wage statistics while polishing up the bottom line. Though the UNICCO janitors do have a union--a separate bargaining unit in the same SEIU Local 254 where the Harvard-payroll janitors are members--their agreements must be made with UNICCO, not Harvard. Come Nov. 1, the other group of janitors may join that list...
Inevitably, the vast majority of us will be peacefully dreaming (about spring break) as Antonio begins his morning janitorial duties as an employee of UNICCO, a private cleaning company sub-contracted by Harvard. In fact, the night owls among us are barely donning pajamas as Antonio, clad in the white and blue freshly starched UNICCO uniform, takes up mop, broom and cleaning solution...
...UNICCO pays Antonio $9.05 for each hour that he, literally, cleans up after us. And, this week, Antonio's pay is up for public debate with the outpouring of protests, posters and rallies organized by the Living Wage Campaign. Antonio, along with his fellow UNICCO workers who vacuum our hallowed halls, the dining staff who serve the "honorable" first-year law students their supper, joins the cashiers at Loker Commons and the Greenhouse as the collective victims of an unlivable wage...
...Antonio shrugs nonchalantly when asked about the 95 cents that he stands to gain if the campaign succeeds. The undergraduate and graduate activists spearheading the Living Wage Campaign are pushing Harvard to require that UNICCO raise the wages of all workers to $10, an amount that has been designated by the city of Cambridge as "the minimum living wage...