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...safe - because that means we're ducking and ignoring some the fundamental issues. We need to be able to answer real questions about reproductive cloning, not simply speculate about essentially unknowable safety concerns. We're not asking whether reproductive cloning is consistent or inconsistent with the common moral background of this country. Is it likely to be harmful psychologically to children created by the procedure? Is reproductive cloning just the first step on the path to eugenics...
Perhaps taking your hint, HCECP declined to make any moral claim at all. True, the report mentions “Harvard’s obligation to be a good employer,” concluding that this obligation means Harvard must raise its lowest wages to a level between the magic numbers of $10.83 and $11.30 per hour and guarantee that outsourced workers earn as much as their directly-employed counterparts...
...questions whether HCECP takes its central claim seriously. I suspect the report’s idiotic instrumental justification of a pay hike was simply a way of letting HCECP say what it wanted to say all along without resting its case on the naked assertion of elusive moral precepts. It seems that at the heart of this report lies a standard theme of the left’s loony repertoire: since the rich (and Harvard is indeed rich) have so many dollars, they had better cough up a few (million) to help save the world. Rejecting the report?...
When the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) released its recommendations on the outsourcing of workers and the implementation of a living wage last month, it contributed the latest chapter in the struggle that has seen thousands of people call upon the University to recognize its moral imperative to treat low-wage service workers with the dignity they deserve as human beings and as full members of the Harvard community. On Jan. 18, the formal comment period on the committee’s report ends, leaving the decision to enact the recommendations up to the University?...
Harvard does not negotiate over child labor through collective bargaining, and poverty-level wages should be similarly prohibited. It is incumbent upon a moral institution to set such standards, and the principles identified in the committee’s report acknowledge as much. However, the high principles must be locked in by strong institutions. In the spirit of Summers’ own admirable comments expressing concern for the welfare of Harvard’s service workers (made just before the release of our report), we urge him to set a precedent for Harvard as an employer, befitting its reputation...