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...June 17 vote, would establish a centralized office responsible for enforcing the existing job-security rules. These regulations mandate that the University give preference to laid-off employees when filling new job openings. According to the union’s leadership, the contract also guarantees workers steady wage increases over the next three years, which would accumulate approximately to a 12-percent hike by the end of fiscal year...
Although some critics, citing a four-month delay in the first-year wage increase, have questioned the union’s math in calculating the spoils of the new contract, Jaeger said the uncharacteristically large raise percentage is reflective of the University’s attitude toward its workforce...
Echoing the principal philosophy behind the Living Wage Campaign, an initiative of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) which culminated with a 2001 Mass. Hall sit-in, Jaeger emphasized the importance of the University’s labor force in ensuring Harvard’s continuing success in academics and research...
Putting a stop to outsourcing was one of the main demands of the Living Wage Campaign. Although University President Lawrence H. Summers made no unilateral promises in its aftermath, the popularly termed Katz Committee, formed in response to the sit-in, used remarkably strong language against the practice in its report to the president...
LEGACY OF THE LIVING WAGE...