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Harvard is changing its subcontractor for campus security from AlliedBarton to Securitas on Aug. 1, but the workers employed, the level of security on campus, and the collective bargaining agreement between the workers and the union will not change...
...expect [all the workers] to be rehired by Securitas...that's our demand," said Wayne M. Langley, director of higher education for Service Employees International Union Local 615. "We think that pretty much all aspects of contract under AlliedBarton will be honored by Securitas...
...contract switch marks the end of a tumultuous five-year stint for AlliedBarton at Harvard that saw student protests and even a hunger strike erupt as security guards fought for wage increases and the right to unionize. Although security guards had once been directly employed by the University and enjoyed membership in the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guards Union, the University gradually outsourced the work due to financial losses earlier in the decade...
Harvard's outsourced security guards unionized in 2006 after two years of protracted negotiations. After the agreement was reached between AlliedBarton and SEIU, students, labor activists, and workers embarked on a campaign to secure a contract for the guards that included fair wages, steady, full-time work, a safe and sanitary workplace, and fair work procedures...
...Action Movement and the Stand for Security Coalition organized extensive protests and even a nine-day hunger strike, which resulted in the hospitalization of two undergraduates, to encourage the University to intervene in the contract negotiations. The activism prompted University human resource officials to seek an expedited audit of AlliedBarton to ensure that the subcontractor met the University's hiring and wage parity requirements for in-house and outsourced workers...