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Harvard dining workers vote to strike
By adamg on Fri, 09/16/2016 - 5:18pm
The Boston Business Journal reports the workers voted overwhelmingly to walk off the job in two weeks if their union and the university can't come to a contract agreement. Workers are seeking annual salaries of at least $35,000 and more affordable health insurance.
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Where's my burrito?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOBkYBp0Ntg
$35,000 per year
Or, one one millionth of Harvard's endowment.
Nice job, Barnies.
Envy
noun. When you think you're owed what someone else has, just because they have it and you don't. See also: greed.
35k/year
for a person that works in cambridge. yeah, thats real greedy.
So because they work a low
So because they work a low wage job in an expensive high tax liberal town means they need a payout?
What payout?
They're exercising their legal right to bargain collectively. This isn't complicated. Good grief.
And we collectively have the
And we collectively have the right to judge their actions.
Who's this we?
Speak for yourself, please.
Are you the Queen of England?
You should really look up the meaning of the word "collectively." There won't be a vote on this so no one will be judging the union or its members collectively.
Harvard, not "we," has the right to bargain with the union as they see fit, within the law.
You're probably unclear on this as well so I'll be specific: the law is the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
That how it works. I guess this is complicated for some people who don't grasp the fundamentals of labor law.
Thanks for the refresher on why these laws are so important.
Good grief.
hmm
i'd love to know your thoughts on the police union stepping in to try and stop the camera program. i don't recall seeing you chime in saying it was BS.
i also 100% admit i wasn't looking for your name
also, 35k is hardly a 'payout', either. i would have to significantly change my lifestyle if i had to live on 35k. like the other guy said. its their right to bargain for better wages.
Cambridge's real estate taxes
Cambridge's real estate taxes are among the lowest in the state.
Republican gets paid for work, others
get hand outs. Trumpian economics. I deserve and you don't.
An important fact: unlike
An important fact: unlike most colleges, Harvard's dining workers are university employees, not employees of a contractor megacorporation like Aramark or Sodexo.
Other unionized Harvard service employees have seen their jobs outsourced. I hope for the dining employees' sake that it never happens to them.
Once they negotiate for a
Once they negotiate for a higher salary that may just happen. Once the salary line item is high enough someone will look into whether it's cheaper to contract those positions out.