Word: wage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measure, Harvard pays its in-house guards more than the industry standard. Since they are Harvard employees, they are also recipients of generous health and retirement benefits. Because Harvard didn't hire any new guards after 1992, by 1999 all of the guards were earning the maximum hourly wage and working unlimited overtime because of the small, tightly stretched force. Harvard was thus paying an exorbitant amount per hour for security...
Examining costs alone, Harvard made a smart decision to outsource. But it also raises concerns among students who wonder if the SSI guards are making a living wage. While SSI, as a private company, does not have to release its hourly wage to the public, by most accounts it is below the Harvard guard wage, and it is unclear whether or not its guards receive benefits...
Purdy is correct in attributing a certain earnest motivation to those who are involved with grassroots organizations like the living wage campaign. But, in some sense, this is to be expected. In general, students who devote their time to student groups at Harvard do so earnestly and honestly. Whether I decide to direct a play, write for a publication or celebrate my cultural heritage, it is because I gain some intrinsic pleasure from the activity itself. I have, to use Purdy's words, identified with a project, relationship or aspiration. My extracurricular choice--whatever it might be--would rarely elicit...
Partially spurred on by the public attention of the Living Wage campaign, University officials began to attempt to get a numerical understanding of the problem in front of them, and negotiations intensified over the summer...
...Living Wage Campaign has specifically not affiliated itself directly with the union's efforts, instead focusing on its mantra of $10 an hour for all Harvard employees...