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Councillor Marjorie C. Decker introduced a resolution to censure the Unicco Services Company, which provides janitorial services to more than a dozen Cambridge businesses, including Harvard...
Decker returned yesterday morning from Miami, where she met with Unicco employees at the University of Miami, who have been on strike for the past seven weeks. Some of the workers have been on a hunger strike for 17 days, Decker said...
...help the Miami workers at an event at 45 Mt. Auburn Street this Saturday. More than 100 Miami janitors have been striking for six weeks and 10 have been on a six day hunger strike to protest unfair working conditions and low wages. The janitors are employed by UNICCO Service Company, one of the nation’s largest private facilities maintenance companies. Harvard outsources much of its janitorial work to UNICCO. The janitors are working with the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), which helped janitors at Harvard achieve a living wage in 2002 and last semester negotiated...
...building managers before entering any dormitory. The badge, which “shall be displayed prominently,” will help students to differentiate between dangerous intruders and benign maintenance workers. This legislation wisely addresses the problem of plainclothes contractors who, unlike the uniformed Facilities Maintenance Operations workers and UNICCO janitors, often carry no form of identification. Though seemingly harmless, the gravity of this security risk became clear last October, when a convicted rapist was found roaming the halls of Mather House, posing as a fire-door inspector to try to enter student rooms. After the intrusion, some residents have...
...visitor’s pass “could save everybody both in terms of convenience and in terms of safety,” said Matt R. Greenfield ’08, the other sponsor and another SAC vice-chair. Currently, Harvard authorizes uniformed Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) workers, UNICCO janitors, and plain-clothes student dorm crew workers and outside contractors to enter residential housing. Plain-clothes workers often carry no means of identification. The UC’s proposed change would require workers to obtain a visitors pass from the building manager before entering a dorm. FMO Supervisor Robert...