Word: waging
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...writer, a former Crimson staff member, participated in the living wage...
...Comprehensive Information Packet shows that these activists are no dummies—they’ve done their homework. You can see that a security guard at Harvard makes $12.68 an hour, whereas at Stanford their wage is $20.39 and at neighboring MIT it’s $18.64 an hour. On their website you can also see worker testimonials. From Najeeb Hussain you will learn that “Because AlliedBarton and Harvard University are standing in the way of me and my fellow officers’ efforts to improve our jobs with the Service Employees International Union...
...that span of time three hunger strikers were hospitalized, and one of those strikers had to call off his fast because of dire medical orders from UHS. And while University Hall has ceded to meeting with representatives from SLAM, they maintain that they will not intervene in the wage dispute with AlliedBarton, who did extend an offer of a wage increase yesterday. Should Harvard recant its current position and actually act on behalf of the security guards, the strike would technically result in success...
...strike for Harvard’s security guards by arguing that “Harvard has no legal role in this process” (Harvard Will Not Intervene, May 7, 2007). In that very same article however, she acknowledges that “AlliedBarton is fully subject to the Wage and Benefit Parity Policy” Harvard adopted after a sit-in for a living wage...
Harvard can choose to require AlliedBarton to pay security guards more fairly and prevent arbitrary dismissals or punitive scheduling decisions. It could easily enforce the Wage and Benefit Parity Policy and strengthen it to prevent other harmful labor practices. Instead, it chooses to deny responsibility for campus workers by hiring a separate management company to do its dirty work. SEIU’s only opportunity to organize outsourced workers is to place accountability on those who hire the subcontractors, as this campaign is doing and as they have done in Justice for Janitors campaigns around the country...