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...union representing Harvard’s janitors reached a tentative agreement with the University last night, drawing up a six-year contract that will gradually raise the starting wage for custodial workers to $18.50 per hour...
With the contract between Harvard’s janitors and the University set to expire at midnight tonight, the two sides remain at odds over potential wage hikes.During yesterday’s negotiations, Harvard put forward a six-year agreement that would gradually increase janitors’ starting wage to $17 per hour, according to union officials.But Harvard’s proposal falls short of the union’s last demand, for a raise in the starting wage to $19.50 over five years. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615, represents most of Harvard’s janitors. Under...
...odds on achieving a deal fluctuated all day, Rice's stubborn side kicked into high gear. "I'm not going to leave here until we get an agreement," she told an aide. She decided to delay her departure for Asia and return to Jerusalem after paying a condolence call on Jordan's King Abdullah in response to the Amman terror attacks...
...help reboot the Palestinian economy, that Gaza's harvest, which was almost due, would be likely to rot in warehouses. That was because Israel, which controls all access points into the Palestinian territories even after withdrawing from Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority had been unable to reach an agreement that would let inhabitants of the territories travel and trade. The two sides were inches from a deal, Wolfensohn said, but were hung up on details...
...gathered with other U.S. diplomats and Palestinian representatives in her suite for intensive talks over three hours, using a secure laptop to make line-by-line changes in a draft "agreement on movement and access." A top-level Israeli team arrived at her hotel about 1 a.m., producing a round of "elevator diplomacy" between Israeli and Palestinian delegations ensconced on different floors of the hotel. While she waited for one group to go and the next to arrive, Rice, full of nervous energy, paced the hall, popping in on junior staffers as they typed or proof-read. ?Condi never...