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...feel pleased," Alan Balsam, chief shop steward for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Employees Union--which represents Harvard's nearly 450 kitchen workers--said yesterday, adding, "Our reservations about the contract were negligible...
According to Balsam, nearly 40 of the workers delivered speeches about the contract at the meeting...
...Balsam estimated that "only about four or five" workers voted against the agreement, and said a majority favored making the vote unanimous...
...contract negotiations began on June 3, the same day Harvard announced it was suspending three shop stewards--including Balsam--for their roles in a May lunch-hour walkout. That action followed a dispute between Balsam and the manager of the College Dining Hall over the serving of hamburgers...
...University contract proposal also includes a new "health and safety" clause, which would protect workers from potentially hazardous job assignments, and what Balsam characterized as a "Miranda clause...