Word: waged
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...Living Wage Campaign returned to prominence this week, as a rally last Friday and an endorsement by the Kennedy School of Government student government put more pressure on the University and its Living Wage taskforce. The University is expected to respond to janitorial demands for a $10-per-hour wage on Nov. 1. Yet if Harvard's past is any indication, the University will outsource yet another non-educational university function, and the Living Wage Campaign will be handed another defeat. And soon after that a strange thing may happen: without improving the compensation for those who work at Harvard...
...janitorial work in some Harvard buildings and that have replaced the guards at the Houses. These workers, employees of UNICCO Service Company and Security Systems Incorporated, respectively, stand side-by-side Harvard payroll employees in kitchens, restaurants and some janitorial duties, yet have neither a $10-an-hour wage nor a clear voice to fight...
Harvard now signs a contract with the outsourcing agency, not a group that represents the workers. It then gives the outsourcer the responsibility of managing and paying the workforce, in order to wash its hands of often acrimonious negotiations, as well as perhaps to improve living-wage statistics while polishing up the bottom line. Though the UNICCO janitors do have a union--a separate bargaining unit in the same SEIU Local 254 where the Harvard-payroll janitors are members--their agreements must be made with UNICCO, not Harvard. Come Nov. 1, the other group of janitors may join that list...
...Friday's rally, with Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 on hand to challenge the University, should perk up ears somewhere. "The University sets an example for us all," the mayor said. "They set an example for businesses, corporations, MIT--everyone looks to this institution." Compliance with the Living Wage Campaign will help, even symbolically, improve town-gown relations and help the city reach its goal of total compliance for all employers in Cambridge, yet it will be an unacceptable whitewash if Harvard achieves compliance by outsourcing workers paid below a living wage...
There has been talk at KSG of supporting the Living Wage Campaign since the beginning of this school year, according to Aaron D. Bartley, a second-year law student and one of the campaign's leaders...