Word: contracted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When a majority of the MTC’s voting membership turned down the University’s contract proposal on May 24, a year of tumultuous labor relations and widespread worker dissatisfaction came to a violent, angry conclusion...
...People were standing up screaming,” said one worker who voted for the strike authorization and against the contract...
...worker, an electrician who asked to remain anonymous, said that although the MTC—a coalition of five smaller campus unions—has the only contract at Harvard with an absolute “no layoffs” clause, the 1.5-percent first-year wage increase being offered by the University is too low in light of the wages paid to University higher...
...recently completed HUCTW contract, which will come before the membership in a June 17 vote, would establish a centralized office responsible for enforcing the existing job-security rules. These regulations mandate that the University give preference to laid-off employees when filling new job openings. According to the union’s leadership, the contract also guarantees workers steady wage increases over the next three years, which would accumulate approximately to a 12-percent hike by the end of fiscal year...
Although some critics, citing a four-month delay in the first-year wage increase, have questioned the union’s math in calculating the spoils of the new contract, Jaeger said the uncharacteristically large raise percentage is reflective of the University’s attitude toward its workforce...