Word: contract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sides, said Chief Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, "came awfully close." Only 24 hours before the strike deadline, negotiators agreed to increase the industry's compensation costs during the three-year contract by just over 30%. That would be substantially above the figure of 7% a year (22.5% when compounded over three years) recommended under Jimmy Carter's program of "voluntary" guidelines. By excluding some wage and benefit gains, however, the Council on Wage and Price Stability had been expected to proclaim that the 30% pact was close to the guidelines...
After months of arduous negotiations, exacerbated by harsh charges and counter-charges, negotiators for both sides finally reached agreement on a contract Saturday. The faculty approved the contract by a 252-17 vote Monday, and the trustees were expected to follow suit the next...
...member board of trustees, however, withheld final approval of the contract pending clarification of several sections it called ambiguous. Ameeting between trustees and faculty representatives on Wednesday failed to resolve the differences, and that evening the executive board of the faculty union called a strike for the next...
Robert C. Bergenheim, a member of the board of trustees, said the trustees delayed ratification of the contract because they were not familiar with the exact terms their negotiators had agreed upon, and because they wanted to clarify some issues...
...faculty union's executive board called the strike Wednesday night after the University's trustees postponed ratification of a contract pending clarification of sections they called unclear...