From: Benjamin L McKean (mckean@fas.harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 10:59:02 EST
1) TAKE ACTION: call and write to Harvard President Summers ASAP!
2) Forward this far and wide.
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T E L L H A R V A R D T O P A Y A L I V I N G W A G E !
** contact President Summers <hcecp_comments@harvard.edu> **
* phone: 617-495-1502 * fax: 617-495-8550 *
Let him know that you support a living wage and greater protection for
workers' rights to organize, in addition to the immediate wage increases
and parity protection against outsourcing recommended by the HCECP!
******************* WHY CALL PRESIDENT SUMMERS NOW? *********************
The Harvard Committee for Employment and Contracting Policy (HCECP) today
- 12/19 - released their recommendations on how to improve the situation
of low-wage workers to President Summers. He must approve or reject these
recommendations by 1/18; we're asking him to approve the recommendations
....and to GO FURTHER!
/////////////////// So, what should we be mentioning? \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
1) Identify who you are and your relation to the Harvard Community.
2) State your support for the President's immediate implementation of the
HCECP's recommendations, which include the following:
* A one-time wage boost of between $10.83 and $11.20 that will be
negotiated by campus unions.
* A parity policy requiring service contractors to pay wages and
benefits for their on-campus workers that are at least equivalent to
those paid to unionized Harvard direct employees in the same sector.
* Union access to unorganized campus workers
* An annual release of data about Harvard’s low-wage workers
3) Demand that while the implementation of these recommendations would
be a vast improvement, Summers must implement the following long term
solutions, which a significant minority of the HCECP have supported
in their concurring opinions in the HCECP report:
* A LIVING WAGE, adjusted annually to local cost of living.
* Specifications on accessible and affordable health benefits.
* A ban on outsourcing, which Harvard has used to cut wages and weaken
unions.
* Card-check & neutrality which support the right to organize without
employer harassment.
* A broad-based implementation board that, like the HCECP, includes
students, workers, and faculty.
4) Support your argument by drawing on any of your own experiences or the
facts and testimonies in this email. Refer to www.livingwagenow.com or
www.hcecp.harvard.edu/hcecp_final_report.pdf for more data, testimony, and
general information.
5) Close by thanking them and expressing your hope that Summers takes
action immediately.
~~~~~~~~ The HCECP released data showing that:
1) Harvard has contracted out jobs as a way to avoid paying union wages.
2) Consequently, service sector wages on campus have *fallen* 7.5% since
1994 -- a period of unprecedented prosperity for the richest university in
the world, with an $18 billion endowment
3) Almost 1,000 workers now receive wages below the Cambridge city living
wage: now $10.68 an hour.
4) Only 10% of Harvard's part-time service workers are enrolled in
Harvard's health plan, in part because it is so expensive.
* * * * * * * Remember these words * * * * * * *
"I'm sixty-three now and I'm really busted. I literally have no money. I
make $9.40 an hour and I'm in debt...Working overtime is how I survive.
Five years without a raise. At this point, and at this rate, I'll work
forever. I'll never retire."
~Harvard Security Guard, 63 years old
"The money I'm making is not enough. I have to get another job to support
my family. If they give me $15 an hour here, it would be OK. I could
survive. The reason I am doing two jobs is not because I want to be rich.
Because this job is not enough for me to pay the bills."
~Harvard Custodian, 40 years old
))))))))))))THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME(((((((((((((
Once you have done this, amplify your voice by 5 times as much
GET 5 FRIENDS TO COMMIT TO YOU THAT THEY WILL ALSO CALL OR WRITE!
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