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...former House Democratic leader urged Harvard security guards to unionize using tactics that proved successful at the University of Miami, as labor organizers and student activists readied for what could be the next big battle over workers?? rights here...
Organizers accuse the company of hiring “irresponsible” contractors—two of which are under investigation by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board for violating workers?? rights—according to Charlie W. Noss, one of the event’s organizers...
...whole idea of the DSP is to create stable jobs.”Job stability is just one of the objectives that the DSP hopes to address. While the WRC previously confined its efforts to ensuring that university-licensed companies presented foreign contractors with certain codified standards for workers?? rights, the new program would require that companies take the extra step of giving the factories money to make certain that the maintenance of such standards is a possibility.The new measures came in response to a lack of progress in areas where a desperation for employment undercut concerns...
...improve ours every day. On the heels of a wage hike to Harvard’s custodial workers, it would only be fair that HUDS workers would also benefit from a commensurate increase in wages. In addition to all the justifications advanced for the pay raise for custodial workers??soaring cost of living in the Boston areas, higher wages at peer institutions—providing dining hall workers with higher wages would be further justified by the need for a better safety net for unexpected summer unemployment (even at its best, Harvard could never re-hire all dining...
Nearly 1,200 students signed comment cards last week to support Harvard University Dining Services workers?? efforts to improve their working benefits. Sponsored by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the gathered support will be used next month to help union leaders negotiate a more favorable contract for dining hall employees. Their current contract expires in June. Dining hall workers are currently not guaranteed work over summer recess, nor are they allowed to collect unemployment benefits for those three months, said Adams House cook Bill Nicolson. They are also not paid during Christmas vacation, intercession, and spring break...