According to Ryan, the survey on employee satisfaction will not be given to subcontracted workers.

“You want people who are invested in the place they work at,” Ryan said. “If you don’t have a vested interest in the place you work at it can chage your view.”

But Minsu Longiaru, a law school student and member of the Worker’s Center, a coalition of students and workers from different unons and subcontractors, said she objects to Ryan’s argument. “Based on the subcontracted workers that the Worker’s Center have relationships with, workers for subcontracting companies like UNICCO defintely consider themselves as prt of this university’s community and contributing to that commuity,” Longiaru said.

Claims of Intimidation

At yesterday’s protest, PSLM members also said workers who have been active with labor issues in the recent negotiations are being intimidated by their supervisors.

They said three of the ten employees who were on the committee that negotiated new custodial contracts have been suspended or moved to a different worksite since the contract was signed on Feb. 27.

One member of the committee, Frank Morley—who was arrested for an act of civil disobediance during the union negotiations—said he was suspended from work the week after the contract was signed.

Morley, who is a subcontracted employee of Hurley’s of America, works as a janitor at the Littauer Building.

He said that throughout the University’s negotiations with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254, SEIU would call Hurley’s to let the employer know each time Morley left work early for negotiations.

Morley said he was suspended from work for three days on the day the union voted to ratify the new contract—although he said the union had notified his employer. When SEIU threatened to file a grievance, Morley said, Hurley’s of America paid him for the three days.

Morley, who has been a custodian for more than 30 years and worked at Harvard since 1997, questioned the timing of the suspension.

“I’ve never been suspended at any job and all of a sudden I’m being suspended?” he said.

Hurley’s of America could not be reached for comment.

Wilson Sinclaire, a Harvard custodian who was part of the negotiating committee and active during last year’s Mass. Hall sit-in, said he has also had trouble with management since the new contract was negotiated.

Just two weeks ago, he was moved from his job at Adams House to work in buildings at the Soldiers Field Athletic Complex.