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...royally entertaining debacle. We weren’t gone long before Cornel "Wild Wild" West and Henry "Skip-Out" Gates got ready to dash away, dash away all to Princeton. And then, just as Summers was making up to the Af-Am Department under the mistletoe, the Katz Committee snuck in to keep things interesting until exams...
...recommending that Harvard insist that its contractors pay equal wages and benefits to their employers to those Harvard pays its own employees the Katz Committee is calling on Harvard to behave as a fair employer to its outsourced workers, although they are not directly employed by Harvard. The committee has recommended the University, establish a parity wage and benefits policy governing on-site contractors. Such a policy is a first step toward reshouldering the moral burden, if not the managerial burden, of the University’s obligation toward all its workers...
...Internation (SSI) are private companies we don’t know how much of the money Harvard gives them goes to their workers. This is especially true when the contracted workers are not unionized, like the guards employed by SSI. Less information is given about SSI guards in the Katz report than any type of worker. Oversight is not going to be easy...
Meetings for the Katz Committee began this past May with 20 members, but Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 resigned from the committee in October, before the Oct. 22 forum releasing preliminary data, claiming that the committee favored a pro-living wage agenda. Hoxby declined to comment on the committee’s recommendations...
...think that the process that was set up with the committee, whatever its origins, was a very good process,” Katz said...