The Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Practices, formed this April, is a Faculty task force with five Faculty members, with three having extensive backgrounds in academic studies of labor.
Right now, of course, they still are in the "data gathering process" of slowly trying to collect data on Harvard's employees, culling information from computer records and from personal questionnaires.
"I'd hope to have a final report before the spring. We're not trying to delay this," says Weatherhead Professor of Business and Committee Chair D. Quinn Mills. "Frankly if the summer had not intervened, we might be done."
The committee has met seven times since April and two to three times over the summer but has been unable to get an accurate image of Harvard employment during the summer months of low-activity.
Outside the ad hoc committee, several Faculty members have publicly sided with the unions at times and have spoken out against the University's employment practices, citing the need for a more all-encompassing definition of the Harvard community.
Over 100 Faculty members signed a petition supporting the goals of the campaign, and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 even wrote them a $50 check.
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