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...outside contractors like AlliedBarton to pay their employees wages comparable to those received by in-house, unionized employees who perform similar jobs. Currently, in-house guards are paid 19 cents more than those contracted from AlliedBarton. But students are demanding that Harvard also mandate a “living wage?? for the guards, which the SEIU sets at $15 an hour...
...parity policy was adopted in 2002 at the recommendation of the Katz Committee, which was formed after the 2001 “living wage?? protests to address the issue of wages and working conditions for service workers at the University...
...fever. The protestors, who seem to delight in making mountains out of molehills, have one thing right: It sure feels good to have a cause to rally behind. Yet watching college students put their bodies on the line for unionized security guards who make almost twice the minimum wage??and equal to the Cambridge-decreed living wage??it’s hard not to feel as though the real point of the protest is masturbatory. After all, a hunger strike is not just a publicity stunt, but a good way to transform a question of audits...
...AlliedBarton client, to promote the welfare of those of its employees that work on campus. Harvard should make clear that, as an employer, it supports the institution of fair grievance procedures, hiring full-time, instead of part-time, workers when possible, and the payment of a higher wage??all of which are part of Stand For Security’s demands.It’s important to note that Harvard is already a relatively generous employer. All on-campus employees are currently paid at or above the living wage as established by the City of Cambridge...
SLAM’s “living wage?? campaign once again is a prime example. Instead of academically engaging the notion of a living wage and trying to validate it, SLAM ignores the vast literature critical of the notion of a living wage. Instead of talking to Harvard’s famed labor economists about how wage structures work, they denounce capitalists. Instead, they work backwards to determine that the “living wage?? of a single adult with two children in Boston is $29.64 per hour, an annual income of $62,589, which...