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...conditions facing Yale workers are appalling; they closely resemble the conditions of work at Harvard before the new wage and employment policies brought in by the living wage campaign. Workers, including those who have worked at the school for decades, receive poverty wages, haven’t had a raise in years and work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Their pension plan is inadequate and thereby discourages elderly workers from retiring. Yale service workers have no job security and are under constant threat of outsourcing. While wages and conditions at Harvard have improved, Yale still lags behind Harvard...
Students did storm Mass. Hall demanding a living wage two years ago, and uncertainty does surround the course of future contract talks...
Last March, janitors represented by Service Employees International Union Local 254 rallied twice outside Harvard Yard during six weeks of negotiations that eventually ended in wage hikes. In one of the actions, several students and workers were arrested for blocking traffic, but University operations were never disturbed...
Student support has been key to Harvard’s labor interests. Without the sit-in, the committee that recommended wage increases and required parity pay for outsourced workers would never have convened...
...hindsight, identifying $100 million a year to cut from Harvard’s costs makes the University’s concern about the $13 million necessary to extend a living wage to all its workers seem trivial. The administration’s insistence that labor be outsourced in the name of lower costs was at that time a very weak claim given their apparent lack of interest in fielding competitive bids on items from computers to construction materials...