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...fifth-lowest paid in the country, Snyder says, 9 to 5 is now focusing its protest on the Boston Survey Group, an organization of more than 40 banks, insurance companies, hospitals, universities (including Harvard) and other businesses which meets quarterly to discuss employment practices. The group conducts biannual indepth clerical salary surveys, which, Snyder says, "set the going rate for salaries of secretaries and office workers. In effect, the Boston Survey Group sets an artificially low ceiling on what office workers are paid in Boston," Snyder says...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Continuing the Good Fight | 10/1/1980 | See Source »

Nurses, volunteer workers, and donors will fill Memorial Hall until the end of next week during the biannual Red Cross blood drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross Blood Drive | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...union is happy with the department's decision to eliminate the biannual physical stress test, which the police felt increased insecurity over their jobs (if an officer didn't pass the test he was removed from the force). "I think it did something for the morale of the police department and the morale of the people in the health services," Chafin says. Responding to union complaints of three years ago, the department has also improved the quality of the equipment officers use. Chafin claims the new emergency equipment and a new fleet of police cruisers with alley lights and better...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Police: Chafin' at the Bit | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Contract negotiations between the University and the Harvard Police Association broke down at the wire last July when the two sides differed over what the police administration meant when it ordered "biannual physical examinations" for the officers. The union's dictionary defined the key word as meaning "twice a year"; Harvard's edition read "once every two years." It took until December--almost a full year after the union's first contract expired--before both sides patched up their semantic differences and signed a new pact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English is obviously not their first language | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Next year's Committe on Undergraduate Education (CUE) course guide may be divided into a biannual publication which will include two to three times as many courses as this year's guide contained, its editor-in-chief said yesterday...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: CUE Guide | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

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