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Harvard, Boasting $40 Billion Endowment, Lays Off Dining Hall Workers Due to Coronavirus
Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 24, 2020 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 03/25/2020 5:17:19 AM PDT by C19fan

Harvard University, which has the largest endowment of any school in the country, is cutting its subcontracted dining hall workers without pay as it shuts down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The move is drawing criticism from employment rights advocates on and off campus who point to the university's $40.9 billion endowment as evidence that the school is hardly in financial straits. They also claim the decision violates Harvard's wage equality policy, which requires the university to compensate dining hall contract workers in a fashion comparable to the school's directly hired employees.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: college; harvard; harvarduniversity; massachusetts; virus
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Harvard could pay these workers by finding money under faculty coaches.
1 posted on 03/25/2020 5:17:20 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Worth more than the staff!


2 posted on 03/25/2020 5:18:24 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: C19fan

Liberals. Do what I say, not what I do.


3 posted on 03/25/2020 5:21:48 AM PDT by Timmy
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To: rrrod

no choice.
Harvard has to pay PokahauntUS
and the other corrupt lawyers who also feed off taxpayers;
and has to now pay
and the corrupt lawyers defending their treasonous professors
who worked with Wuhan and Xi for their murder-by-virus
project.


4 posted on 03/25/2020 5:22:47 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: C19fan

Little people don’t matter.


5 posted on 03/25/2020 5:22:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: C19fan

And that beotch Pelosi wanted to forgive student debt. What a bunch of degenerates.


6 posted on 03/25/2020 5:22:57 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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LIBERALS at work. They are the most lying A-holes when it comes to this stuff. The grubby bums cannot see anything but $$$ and it ain’t for the needy. IT is for THEM!!!


7 posted on 03/25/2020 5:23:17 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible predicted these type of days. Pray to the LORD GOD for mercy on this Republic.)
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To: C19fan

Maybe Michelle has volunteered to garden and fix lunch.


8 posted on 03/25/2020 5:23:27 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: RetiredArmy

9 posted on 03/25/2020 5:24:21 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: C19fan

The alumni must be proud.


10 posted on 03/25/2020 5:28:04 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...)
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To: C19fan

Universities have become money machines. Education is secondary.


11 posted on 03/25/2020 5:30:58 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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Harvard could pay these workers by finding money under faculty coaches.


Do Harvard Coaches get paid very much?


12 posted on 03/25/2020 5:33:46 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Head of harvard has the virus


13 posted on 03/25/2020 5:34:35 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: BBQToadRibs

Harvard especially-is just a snob factory


14 posted on 03/25/2020 5:35:07 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: C19fan

Well, those people are “THOSE people”, y’know? /s


15 posted on 03/25/2020 5:40:04 AM PDT by OKSooner (Hey Xi, do you see this here, you know what this means?)
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Another rat American scam. Raid their endowments and pay off the loans students and parents were scammed into


16 posted on 03/25/2020 5:45:03 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: RetiredArmy

Liberals NEVER want to spend their own money to pay for the things they champion.


17 posted on 03/25/2020 5:47:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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So it’s subcontracted work which means they’re not Harvard’s employees. Why doesn’t their employer pay them? When I hire a roofer, I’m not paying his employees when the season ends.


18 posted on 03/25/2020 5:52:32 AM PDT by Varda
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An endowment isn’t a cavern full of cash. Under the current stock market conditions, it would probably be a violation of the trustees’ fiduciary duty to their client if they sold securities.

That said, it would be an act of great liberality for the every comfortably-well-off employee or alumnus to assume responsibility for paying for a worker’s needs for the duration.


19 posted on 03/25/2020 5:53:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The mark of a decent society is that it resists the temptation to spurn the defenseless.")
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Liberal institutions should be required to paste the liberal motto on every building: “If it were not for double standards, we’d have no standards at all.”


20 posted on 03/25/2020 5:53:45 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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