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...current negotiations do not affect the janitors who work at Harvard. The union and PSLM successfully pushed for free health care for both in-house and outsourced Harvard janitors in contract negotiations last winter...
Several thousand Boston janitors have been on strike for the past three weeks, marching through the streets of Boston every night demanding justice. These janitors belong to the same union as the janitors who clean Harvard’s buildings and who won a better contract last winter after a protracted struggle with the Harvard administration. Many of them are employed by the same companies that employ Harvard’s outsourced janitors. Earning only $39 a night, with no health care and no sick days, they face the same abhorrent conditions Harvard workers have faced in the past...
...agree to the janitors’ reasonable demands. Harvard should recognize that health care is a human right that must be provided by employers. If UNICCO refuses, then Harvard has an obligation to cut its contract with UNICCO. As was negotiated in the Harvard janitors’ contract last winter, all janitors would retain their jobs were this to happen. The practice of subcontracting is generally harmful to workers, and it has always been a demand of the Living Wage Campaign that Harvard discontinue this practice. Rather than hiring another contractor, Harvard should again directly employ all the janitors currently...
...site, though up-and-running, is not quite completed. The athletic department has given priority to sports currently in season and has yet to finish adding content for winter and spring sports...
...liked this girl from home in Virginia, but we’d never gotten together during high school,” recalls Derek Melvin. “Last winter break, I called her up, and she sounded really excited about seeing me. This is a girl who had barely returned my calls before...