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Last Thursday marked a quiet watershed in labor relations at Harvard University. After a delay of several weeks past the comment period he had set, President Lawrence H. Summers finally released a statement agreeing to adopt many of the “core recommendations?? of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, including a significant one-time wage increase and the principle of wage parity for outsourced and in-house workers. In addition to major concrete gains for workers, the decision contained an important revelation. After all that fuss in and around Mass. Hall last spring...
...Witness last year’s Crimson poll question, “Would you support a living wage if it meant your tuition would go up?,” which very coyly implanted the idea of that outcome, despite the $100 million operating surplus and the fact that the recommendations?? cost was estimated at around $5 million. That still gives us $95 million to play with, folks...
...HCECP’s recommendations??including a one-time increase in wages, heightened emphasis on collective bargaining and a policy of wage parity between direct employees and those of on-campus contractors—will all do a great deal to improve conditions for workers at Harvard. Yet there is no reason for the committee to artificially impose a trade-off between the living wage and other benefits Harvard could offer. The University can give its workers both a living wage and parity, and it should do so as soon as possible...
Thomas, who has been involved with the living wage campaign, noted the Dec. 19 date marks the release of recommendations??not Summers’ final decision...