{"id":250,"date":"2006-09-21T14:51:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/09\/21\/harvard-fires-janitor-for-fainting-s"},"modified":"2006-09-21T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T19:13:08","slug":"harvard-fires-janitor-for-fainting-seiu-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/09\/21\/harvard-fires-janitor-for-fainting-seiu-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard fires janitor for fainting; SEIU protests!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2006\/09\/flyering_800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Members of SEIU local 615 distributing flyers for support rally for Saintely Paul\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2006\/09\/flyering_384.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of Service Employees Internation Union Local 615 distributing flyers for Friday&#8217;s support rally for Saintely Paul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>From the SEIU 615 flyer:<\/p>\n<p>Saintely Paul has been working in the William James Hall for Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) for the past 6&amp;1\/2 years. He was fired at the end of June after he fainted at work. Havard refuses to rehire him despite medical documentation of his treatment . Upon firing, Saintely&#8217;s health insurance was taken away.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">YOU CAN HELP!<br \/>\nRally with janitors, politicians, students, and faculty!<br \/>\nFriday, September 22, 5PM<br \/>\nIn front of the Holyoke Center (Au Bon Pain)<br \/>\nHarvard Square, Cambridge<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">Also:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Contact Harvard University&#8217;s interim president Derek Bok by e-mail:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">derek_bok {the normal at-sign goeth here*}  harvard.edu<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Or by phone: (617) 495-1502<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Tell him that Harvard janitors deserve better treatment. Demand that Harvard reinstate Saintely Paul with back pay and cover the medical expenses he has incurred during this period.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Questions? Contact SEIU local 615 at 617-878-7403<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This is not a request to cease services and deliveries. No dispute with any other employer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">*handing the President&#8217;s email address to spam-bots is counterproductive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Service Employees Internation Union Local 615 distributing flyers for Friday&#8217;s support rally for Saintely Paul. &#8212;&#8212; From the SEIU 615 flyer: Saintely Paul has been working in the William James Hall for Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) for the past 6&amp;1\/2 years. He was fired at the end of June after he fainted at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harvard-labor-matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}