Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Thursday, a handful of senior guards retired, accepting a University-offered buyout of their contract...
...remaining guards, part of the union which also represents Harvard's parking attendants and Fogg Museum guards, do have a new contract--their first since becoming an independent labor organization...
They allege that the University has sacrificed security to profit, holding out on a new contract while hiring cheaper, outsourced guards. Since the contract was ratified in July, the union has filed several complaints against the University...
Outsourcing the guards has been on the minds of University and FAS officials for several years now. But they deny a concerted effort to replace the proprietary force with a contract agency...
...guards responded in kind. Sources with knowledge of their perspective in the negotiations said the rank-and-file soon realized that this was it--they had to sign a new contract or lose their jobs...