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University News :: Labor
PUBLISHED ON 12/5/2008 2:19:22 AM Four years ago, a Bush-appointed majority of the National Labor Relations Board declared that graduate students at private universities were not statutory employees—a decision that effectively neutered collective bargaining efforts by teaching assistants and relegated student unionization to the back burner.
HUPD says there is no undercover political intelligence unit PUBLISHED ON 4/14/2008 11:39:58 PM The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) denied allegations that the University maintains an undercover political intelligence unit in the wake of two arrests that attracted the scrutiny of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
PUBLISHED ON 10/4/2007 6:10:30 AM Student protesters and union members gathered yesterday outside the Holyoke Center to protest the August firing of a Harvard library assistant who had been arrested for allegedly making terrorist threats in the Alewife T station.
AlliedBarton ups security salaries nearly two dollars an hour PUBLISHED ON 6/22/2007 12:16:12 AM Harvard’s security guards will receive a long-awaited increase in their starting wages, the opportunity for an escalating pay scale, and a new grievance procedure—among other benefits—as part of a contract negotiated by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the guard’s employer, AlliedBarton.
After 9 days, security workers called for end to fast PUBLISHED ON 5/13/2007 5:35:47 PM The nine remaining students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages and benefits offered to Harvard's outsourced security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon.
PUBLISHED ON 5/12/2007 2:05:06 AM The University released the following letter yesterday following a meeting with students protesting the wages paid to Harvard's security guards:
Security guards call for end to strike after protesters meet with Mass. Hall officials PUBLISHED ON 5/11/2007 2:03:03 PM The nine students on hunger strike to protest the wages paid to Harvard’s security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon. The protesters said that the University agreed at a meeting Friday to honor "two key student demands." After that meeting, security guards asked students to end the strike.
AlliedBarton extends offer, guards deem unsatisfactory PUBLISHED ON 5/10/2007 7:14:26 PM High-level University officials have agreed to meet with students who have been protesting for higher wages for security guards, according to Austin S. Guest ’07, a spokesman for the Stand for Security coalition. During negotiations earlier on Thursday, AlliedBarton,the subcontractor that employs Harvard’s guards, extended an offer to the guards, which they deemed unsatisfactory, according to Lauren L. Jacobs, the director of organizing at SEIU 615.
Students hold vigil at empty president's mansion; Javier J. Castro '09 ends fast PUBLISHED ON 5/10/2007 3:27:46 AM Seven days into a hunger strike aimed at getting higher wages for Harvard's security guards, a second undergraduate participating in the strike was hospitalized for dangerously low sodium levels. Meanwhile, about 25 students held a candlelight vigil Wednesday night outside of Elmwood, the currently unoccupied residence of Harvard's president, in an apparent attempt to pressure Interim President Derek C. Bok to meet with protesters.
Students hold vigil at Bok's home; Javier J. Castro '09 ends fast PUBLISHED ON 5/9/2007 11:30:50 PM Seven days into a hunger strike aimed at getting higher wages for Harvard's security guards, a second undergraduate participating in the strike was hospitalized for dangerously low sodium levels. Meanwhile, about 25 students held a candlelight vigil outside of Interim President Derek C. Bok's home in hopes of pressuring the University to intervene in contract negotiations for the workers.
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