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...example of the University of Miami, where janitors and a subcontractor reached an agreement on union representation this past May, provides a potential prototype for a Harvard campaign...
Guards at Harvard are likewise employed by a subcontractor, AlliedBarton Security Services...
Hussain and his co-workers received emotional support last night from Clara Vargas, a janitor at the University of Miami who described her 17-day “water-only” hunger strike before her union and the school’s subcontractor reached a deal...
...favorite example is, did you see the chart [3/20/06] on page six of the Washington Post about what it costs to do 10 cents worth of roofing in New Orleans? It's a chart that says the U.S. government pays $1.75 to the contractor who hires a subcontractor, who hires a sub-subcontractor, who pays a person 10 cents. So you're currently paying $1.75 in your taxes to get 10 cents of roofing...
...workers came from Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and other parts of Louisiana. I would estimate that more than half of the workers we spoke to had outstanding wage and hour claims—for the most part shady contractor or subcontractor outfits who promised them one wage but ended up paying another, failed to pay overtime, made illegal deductions and, the issue that came up perhaps most frequently, just skipped town without paying up at all,” Chen wrote...