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...Summers intends to enforce the University’s rules. In contrast to his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, Summers says that students disrupting University employees will ordinarily face suspension. The new policy clarifies the University’s stance toward protests like last spring’s living wage sit-in and makes clear the potential risks to students taking such actions...
Late Wednesday night, SEIU and the University agreed on a proposal that would pay all Harvard janitors at least $11.35 per hour—a wage that will rise...
...janitors concluded negotiations with the University on Wednesday, accepting an $11.35 starting wage that would be increased to $13.50 by 2005. This was far below the $13.40 starting wage first demanded by the union. The contract has some major accomplishments; the new health insurance plan does not require worker contributions and Harvard has agreed to offer parity wages to its non-union janitors. Still, if Tuesday’s civil disobedience had the effect the union claims it did—of embarrassing Harvard into accepting union demands—one wonders how much the union sacrificed in wage hikes...
...after hours of caucus meetings and counterproposals, the two sides had mostly agreed on the retroactive $11.35 figure and the wage rate increases over the three years of the new contract. The dispute had been narrowed down to one main issue: when the yearly increases would kick in. Harvard had proposed October of each year of the contract, while the union had asked for July, which would move up the wage increases by three months...
...more important question to ask is with what force PSLM is operating. A few weeks ago, President Lawrence H. Summers approved an unprecedented wage hike, largely because last year’s unlawful occupation of Mass. Hall prompted the formation of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies...