Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the terms of the new contract, the dining hall workers are to receive the same take-home pay for five days' work as they have been previously receiving for six. This change will be translated for the temporary employees into a 12-cent rise in the minimum wage, from 53 to 65 cents per hour (plus meals...
Reduced working-time, although certainly a gain in itself, cannot help the dining hall employees to live as well as or better than before in the midst of rising price levels. And how does a part-time employee gain from such a contract adjustment? The onus for such failure in labor relations at Harvard lies equally with the University--intent on maintaining its traditional position of father-confessor to its employees--and with the unions, which cannot see beyond the noses of their temporary security and convenience, so easily bought by indolence...
Dining hall workers have won a revision of their existing contract with the University, Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, announced yesterday. The revision, which will take effect immediately, will lead to a five-day work week in place of the present six-day week, with no loss of take-home...
...eventual monetary result of the new contract will be to raise the average hourly wage of the dining hall employees 16 percent, but the upward movement will not take place immediately, Reynolds emphasized, because of the necessity of hiring more employees to fill in when the work-week is reduced to five days...
According to Reynolds, the contract revision was the first with the dining hall employees since August, 1945. He indicated also that by the terms of the old contract the University was not obligated to review its terms until June, 1947, but felt that in justice to the employees it should waive the right to withhold for another seven months further adjustments in the wage scale...