Harvard, Boasting $40 Billion Endowment, Lays Off Dining Hall Workers Due to Coronavirus

Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 24, 2020 | Alana Goodman

[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.

[KC_Lion]

Well you don’t keep $40 Billion fund by not having a tight budget.

If some little people get laid off, that’s okay the next round of migrant hires will be cheaper anyway.

[SES1066]

Well, that is stepping on the rake, isn’t it? But this is Ha[r]va[r]d, sanctimony are us!

[Ouchthatonehurt]

If only Bloomberg had given every American a million dollars instead of buying campaign ads, none of this would be a problem.

[LouAvul]

So? So? The article simply affirms that Harvard, a bastion of liberal ideology and tolerance toward all, is nothing but an hypocritical shell of what it pretends to be?

Noooooooo!!!!!! Say it isn't sooooooooooooooo!!!

[bort]

Let them eat cake!

[I want the USA back]

I like some of bernie’s ideas: the one where he takes money from billionaires, as long as he takes it from universities and not from people.

[dfwgator]

Fight Fiercely, Harvard!

[firebrand]

Let them use the ice cream fund. Some guy left millions to Harvard for ice cream at every meal.

[leaning conservative]

Not very woke of them......

[GOPsterinMA]

Yep. Swine.

[Sgt_Schultze]

It's been said that the greatest thing about getting a Harvard degree is never again having to be impressed by Harvard graduates.

Pretty surely that patina is wearing off.