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Second, there is a political issue to consider. In recent years, the Boston and Cambridge city councils—both strongly Democratic and pro-union??have passed living wage resolutions. In doing so, they have repeatedly asked Harvard (and other local colleges and universities) to follow their example. Given Harvard’s very public intentions to expand its reach on both sides of the Charles River, and given its recent attempts to improve its “town-gown” relationship by donating millions of dollars to local education initiatives, it would...
More than 600 Harvard workers, their families, community members and students protested University employment policies Monday, in preparation for the beginning of the custodial union??s contract negotiations...
...union??s president recently claimed that the federal indictment of Boston Police Department (BPD) Sgt. Harry A. Byrne Jr. on civil rights charges was motivated by the status of the alleged victim, Garett D. Trombly ’03, as a white, affluent Harvard student. We disagree. Byrne was indicted because he allegedly broke Trombly’s jaw while the Harvard junior was in police custody for public drinking and other minor charges, charges that were later dropped...
...union??s argument that Trombly is getting special treatment due to his supposedly privileged socioeconomic status—claims about which have not been substantiated, but appear to have been simply assumed because of his attendance at Harvard—begs the question as to why federal prosecution of civil rights violations by police officers should constitute special treatment in the first place...
...irresponsible of the police union to intervene in this manner and to comment on a case that is still pending. The union??s interest is in the swift dispensation of justice, not its obstruction. It is unfortunate that it took a federal case—and an injured student—to make that clear...