Very reluctantly, the union's negotiating board voted to present the contract to the full union in early July. On July 8, the union approved the contract with few dissenting votes.
This lack of opposition doesn't mean the union members liked Harvard's offer, said an 11-year veteran guard who asked not to be identified.
"We voted because we had to. We had no choice," he says.
For HUPD Chief Francis H. "Bud" Riley, who is responsible for security on campus, problems remained.
"We didn't have enough guards to fill the houses," he says.
Alterted by Riley and the University, FAS Administrators contacted SSI about employing more than a dozen guards to fill those holes left by departing Harvard guards when school began in September.
Harvard had been impressed with how SSI guards had performed during Commencement exercises, when they supplemented the regular force and helped with crowd control.
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