{"id":392,"date":"2007-05-04T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T19:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/05\/04\/art-labor-law-and-censorship-at-harv"},"modified":"2007-05-12T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T19:48:32","slug":"art-labor-law-and-censorship-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/05\/04\/art-labor-law-and-censorship-at-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Art, Labor, Law and Censorship at Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2007\/05\/fast2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Setting up for the second day of the fast.<\/div>\n<p>Their placards say &#8220;Support Harvard Workers&#8221;  and &#8220;Stand for Security&#8221;. This action specifically supports employees of Allied-Barton<sup>1<\/sup>stationed at Harvard. To the administration, they are not Harvard employees. Outsourcing is the major tool in Harvard&#8217;s 30 year long program to deunionize the Harvard&#8217;s low wage labor force.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>From 1995 to 2001 the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hcs.harvard.edu\/~pslm\/livingwage\/portal.html\">Harvard Living Wage Campaign<\/a> sought to address this issue, culminating in the sit-in in May of 2001. That group included <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huspmgu.org\/\">&#8220;direct employees&#8221;<\/a> as well as employees of contract workers. In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonhotelunion.org\/\">H.E.R.E<\/a>., Harvard has both. Sadly, the current crop of students doesn&#8217;t care about &#8220;direct&#8221; employees.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, after taking the above picture and officer of HUPD admonished me to get prior approval from University Spokesperson Joe Wrinn. Here&#8217;s the thing, one time photographer and union activist has put down his camera lets administration determine what he writes. I&#8217;m going the other way.<\/p>\n<p>To Wit, Wherefore, Hut Sut, and So Forth<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ogc.harvard.edu\/listbook.php\">Robert W. Iuliano, Esq<\/a>. you are hereby admonished to cease and desist from prior restraint of the free press and interference with a duly elected Union official engaged in concerted labor activity.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>That said, I would like to apologize to the officer involved in the event that he be the same as the officer who admonished me to not walk through a hard hat area.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>The first phase of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=348458\">Bob<\/a>&#8216;s outsourcing of security at Harvard was to hire Malden based Security Systems International. They were bought by Allied which then merged with Barton.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>The late Polly Price, &#8216;director of human resources&#8217; made much ado about Harvard being a good place to work. It depends. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marxian\">Marxian analysis<\/a> though <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=148131\">incomplete<\/a> is useful. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=348458\">Bob<\/a> was the Assistant General Counsel. He lost &#8211; big time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up for the second day of the fast. Their placards say &#8220;Support Harvard Workers&#8221; and &#8220;Stand for Security&#8221;. This action specifically supports employees of Allied-Barton1stationed at Harvard. To the administration, they are not Harvard employees. Outsourcing is the major tool in Harvard&#8217;s 30 year long program to deunionize the Harvard&#8217;s low wage labor force.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}