As a private employer, he says, Harvard is responsible for setting its own labor policy, free from constraints imposed by Cambridge.
"While we don't mind if the City Council presses us on this, we don't want to convey the impression that the City Council is setting internal policy for us," he says. "That's not going to happen and there shouldn't be that expectation."
"No one wants to get into the frame of mind that we're responding to directives," Grogan says.
Braude acknowledges that the council can not directly influence the University's policies, but strongly believes in the power each councillor's bully pulpit holds.
"We can't tell them what to do," Braude says. "The City Council has no power other than the bully pulpit to directly affect Harvard's policy on this."
Bigger Fish To Fry
"I clearly would like to put this issue behind us," Galluccio says. "We have bigger fish to fry."
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