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...response to the requests contained in the petition entitled “Stand for Security??, we are very pleased to reaffirm our ongoing commitment to the principles and implementing recommendations set forth in the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies’ (the Committee) final report issued on December 19, 2001. In so doing, the University endorses the carefully considered findings of a committee of eleven faculty members, four students, three union representatives, and two administrators charged with reviewing concerns similar to those raised in your petition. As in 2001, we believe the Committee?...
...members of Stand For Security began a hunger strike to call attention to the plight of AlliedBarton security workers on campus, who unionized under the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) last December and are now negotiating their first contract through SEIU. While we agree with many of Stand For Security??s aims and its general spirit of promoting the welfare of Harvard’s workers, we cannot support its extreme tactic of using a hunger strike to force Harvard’s hand.Though Harvard does not employ AlliedBarton security workers directly, and thus has no legal obligation...
Instead of having the TSA both regulate and operate airport security??a clear conflict of interest—we should leave the government to its proper oversight role and revert to the old system of private airport security provision. If the free market can protect Israel’s airports, where screeners are run by private companies, there’s no reason to believe it can’t guard American ones...
...individuals may not have access to the facts necessary to make an informed choice, but this could be easily solved by having the TSA, or another agency, rate airlines’ security policies. Thus, an individual would be free to choose an airline that rates, say, a D in security??just as they are free to choose a car that gets only one star in crash tests—if they prefer the convenience or price despite the risks...
President Bush is right to revive the principle of sacrifice in the American political lexicon, for surely all of the problems we face as nation—whether the war in Iraq, global climate change, the rising cost of health care, or the tenuous state of Social Security??will require a diversion of our own short-term interests for the long-term interests of the nation. But unless this sacrifice comes from all parts of society, relying not only on the valor of the few but also the discipline of the many, then such endeavors are destined...