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DIED. JEAN-LUC LAGARDERE, 75, French industrialist who built a small defense subcontractor into one of Europe's largest conglomerates and whose holdings include the company that makes Airbus jets and the Hachette magazine group, publisher of Car and Driver and Elle; of sudden complications after a hip operation; in Paris...
...will go to the likes of General Dynamics, Raytheon and Northrup, all of which sell security systems. But they tend to hire smaller shops like L-3 to make components, so, as Lanza puts it, "we won't be competing with the gorillas." Last year L-3 was a subcontractor for Boeing on several airport-security systems, and it is now working with Lockheed to supply communications gear and systems engineering for the U.S. Coast Guard. Also, last year roughly two-thirds of L-3's 35% earnings growth came from acquisitions. But Lanza predicts that internal growth will account...
...UNICCO. Harvard is a tenant in a number of buildings cleaned by UNICCO. Harvard is also a major landowner in the Greater Boston area, and owns a number of buildings cleaned by UNICCO Most importantly, over 400 janitors at Harvard are employed by UNICCO, making them the largest subcontractor on campus. As such, UNICCO and Harvard deserve much of the responsibility for the horrendous decline in wages and benefits Harvard janitors saw in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Living Wage Campaign was formed in response to Harvard’s willingness to use companies like UNICCO on campus, companies...
Saenz said that yesterday’s negotiations focused largely on adapting language from the Harvard janitors’ contract to each subcontractor, and were easily negotiated...
UNICCO, the University’s largest subcontractor, is also moving along in the implemenation process...