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Harvard Workers Left Out in the Cold
In January the university plans to cut the compensation of its janitorial staff. Contracted workers could get nothing. Harvard Yard (Chensiyuan/Wikimedia Commons)
This article is part of Belabored Stories, a series by Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen featuring short accounts of what workers are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. Send your stories to belabored@dissentmagazine.org.
Harvard Universityâs campus has been dormant since last spring, and as COVID-19 cases rise through the winter, itâs unclear when normal classes will resume. The administration recently announced that the majority of the university’s staff would continue to work remotely through June 2021. For the janitorial staff, however, work never ended. Roughly 700 janitorial workers have held onto their jobs through the pandemic, maintaining their full union wages, even though in some cases they are working on a reduced s