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...report issued by the HCECP, widely known as the Katz Committee after its chairman, Harvard labor economist Professor Lawrence F. Katz, blamed the use of outside contractors for driving down wages on campus. It stated that “outsourcing should not be used to lower wages and weaken the unions representing Harvard’s employees.” Their recommendations included the Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP), which requires contractors to pay wages and benefits that are at least equal to those paid to comparably employed unionized Harvard workers...
...employees began receiving the union wage in May 2003, but the university did not agree to give the workers retroactive pay until Nov. 2003. Bartley said at the time that it was “inexplicable” why the University waited seven months after the employees began receiving the union wage to pay back wages...
...Coming out of the Katz report, the ability of the unions to negotiate for wage and benefit improvements is even more important,” MacKinnon says. “Those unions basically have the responsibility to negotiate the wages of the outsourced workers, even those who aren’t their members...
Last December, Harvard University had to pay more than $4,000 in retroactive wages to three custodians working for Harvard maintenance contractor McGarr Services Inc., which Harvard discovered was operating under two company names—McGarr and White Glove Inc.—in an effort to skirt University policies regarding parity wage. McGarr and White Glove were billing Harvard less than $50,000 annually separately but exceeding $50,000 when their invoices were combined. The companies were listed at the same Brighton, Mass address and a government website showed that they shared an almost identical set of business...
...three employees had been making $9.95 an hour when union organizer Aaron Bartley of SEIU Local 615, which represents most of Harvard’s in-house and contracted custodial workers, brought the matter to the OHR in Feb. 2003. The union wage at the time was $11.85 an hour...