Word: unionizers
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Harvard is quietly planning to lay off some subcontracted custodians in an effort to reduce operating costs, drawing consternation from union organizers who represent University workers...
...Because of low overhead costs in the custodial industry, the request is likely to translate into hefty staff reductions at OneSource as well, although Harvard has not explicitly directed OneSource to reduce staff, said Daniel B. Becker, an organizer for Service Employees International Union Local...
...SEIU 615, which represents 16,000 workers throughout New England, has long advocated for living wages for janitorial workers. Earlier in the decade, union members and students used a variety of demonstration tactics—including sit-ins, rallies, and hunger strikes—to successfully negotiate for raises and benefits from Harvard...
...Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, called the firings “horrible” and said that unions at Harvard need to pool their resources to ensure that the University is “cutting extravagances and slowing down growth as much as possible” to ensure the welfare of workers and programs...
...building had to be attached to the bedrock with a series of steel beams. Without these beams, the library would literally rise up from its underground location.THE BARKER CENTERCompleted in 1997, the Barker Center exists on the lot of land that formerly held several notable buildings: the Student Union, Burr Hall, and Warren House. Until the 1990s, freshman ate in the Student Union. When the University decided to combine the three buildings to form the Barker Center, they first refurbished Memorial Hall in order to transform it into the freshman dining hall that it is today. The Barker Center, designed...