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...University has neither the right nor the expertise to dictate the means by which our vendors organize their business. The situation of service employees working on our campus, however, raises a distinctive set of issues that was carefully considered by a committee of eleven faculty members, four students, three union representatives, and two administrators in 2001. The committee’s review resulted in a set of comprehensive recommendations requiring service vendors to pay wages and to provide benefits (including health insurance, retirement, and paid time off) that are at least comparable to those that the University pays its unionized...
Last December, AlliedBarton Security Services (AlliedBarton), the company which employs the security guards working on the Harvard campus, voluntarily recognized the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as the exclusive bargaining representative for its employees working at Harvard. AlliedBarton and the SEIU recently began to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement that will address the set of interconnected issues that define the relationship between an employer and its employees...
...enjoy—the safety provided by the security guards employed by AlliedBarton Security Services (AlliedBarton), to which Harvard outsources most of its security needs. Recently, student members of Stand For Security began a hunger strike to call attention to the plight of AlliedBarton security workers on campus, who unionized under the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) last December and are now negotiating their first contract through SEIU. While we agree with many of Stand For Security’s aims and its general spirit of promoting the welfare of Harvard’s workers, we cannot support its extreme...
Every game against the Yankees becomes a battle for cultural supremacy reminiscent of Cold War athletic contests against the Soviet Union. Drawing on Ronald Reagan’s anti-Soviet propaganda, Red Sox President Larry Lucchino has even labeled the Yankees an “Evil Empire...
...most passionately fought French Presidential election in recent memory wasn't even close: Conservative standard-bearer Nicolas Sarkozy handily beat Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal 53.2% to 46.8% to succeed Jacques Chirac in the Elysée. The win also gives Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Majority party (UMP) a considerable boost ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 10 and 17, where victory would give the right the power necessary to push through the vast modernization and liberalization program promised by Sarkozy...