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...Democratic operative, to craft a more combative legislative strategy. Instead of going along with bipartisan compromises, the plan is to introduce more "message" legislation to rally the Democrats' base and force Republicans into unpopular votes. Senator Ted Kennedy plans to introduce a bill next week to raise the minimum wage to $7 an hour, and he plans to attach it to the next measure the Republicans want to push through the Senate. Democrats last week pounced on N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who said the outsourcing of U.S. jobs was "a good thing...
When Harvard paid three janitors back wages of more than $4,000 in December, it rightly rectified an injustice perpetrated by outside cleaning contractors. Still, Harvard has done too little to prevent other companies from avoiding wage and benefit obligations and exploiting their workers...
...case resolved in December, Harvard had found McGarr Services Inc. was wrongly representing itself as two separate companies—McGarr and White Glove Inc. By doing so, McGarr had avoided the $50,000 contract threshold, above which companies must match their employees’ wages and benefits to those of workers employed directly by Harvard. The two contracts totaled more than $50,000 in work, but McGarr employees received $9.95 an hour in February 2003 rather than the union wage of $11.85 an hour...
...requirement of parity between unionized and non-union outsourced workers is one result of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies. The stipulation is designed to remove Harvard’s incentive to outsource as a method of cutting wages. Making good on that intention, and guaranteeing that all employees are paid a fair wage, requires that the University be vigilant in overseeing contractors and enforcing requirements...
...regular, administrative monitor was able to catch the impropriety, and the University remains woefully oblivious to how many other companies are employing similar schemes to cut costs at workers’ expense—and in violation of University policies. Though fulfilling its commitment to pay a fair wage in this case is certainly a positive step, Harvard should be embarrassed that its own rules were skirted for so long...