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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Essex County commissioners entered into a contract with PCM in 1974 for the company to supervise about $10 million worth of county construction work. Although Bellotti claims to have advised PCM only on strictly legal matters, witnesses claim that Bellotti personally lobbied Essex County commissioners to persuade them to make a contract with PCM. According to investigative news stories, although PCM had only been incorporated the previous month, Bellotti praised the PCM firm at a February 5, 1974 meeting of the Essex Country commissioners, saying the PCM firm was "the most informed and efficient in their entire field...
Sponsored by an Institute of Politics study group, Fraser said he thinks the 1.5 million UAW workers can look forward to a four-day work week. The current UAW contract expires next year...
LAST WEEK the University won another labor victory by using inflexible and threatening bargaining tactics. Because the University refused to compromise on the benefits issue, the members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union voted in a stormy meeting to ratify the University contract offer. Their vote reversed an earlier decision in September to reject the pact...
...workers' vote, however, does not indicate satisfaction with the contract. The dining hall workers simply preferred working under an inadequate contract to going on strike, with the financial hardships a strike entails. Harvard's refusal to compromise is hardly surprising, given the University's generally callous attitude toward union employees. While the contract contains a reasonable wage increase, food services remains a traditionally lower-paid industry. The pensions offered in the latest contract are still pitifully inadequate, and so workers need expanded benefits to fill the wage gap. Despite kitchen workers' requests that the University consider these concerns, Edward...
...only regret that the University's inflexible bargaining tactics prevented a satisfactory compromise on the important benefits issue in the contract. Harvard forced the union into ratifying a contract the majority of workers still find inadequate, and further embitters labor relations between Local 26 and the University...