Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move to strengthen their clout at the bargaining table, Harvard's dining hall workers this week angrily voted to reject the University's latest contract offer, and authorized their union negotiators to call a strike if Harvard does not propose better terms...
...University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Amherst faculty, in protest of its new contract, cancelled classes yesterday in order to conduct a "conference on the state of the university," UMass officials said yesterday. UMass police said about 100 students and faculty attended the conference...
Meanwhile, the UMass at Boston faculty has staged pickets at the president's office in Boston for nearly a week in protest of the same contract...
...controversial contract was approved by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis on June 30, the last day of the state's fiscal year. The agreement guarantees the UMass faculty a 20-per-cent pay hike over the next three years--the first salary raise that faculty has had in five years...
Under its present contract, faculty members are granted pay increases commensurate with "merit points," which are assigned to each professor by the university administration on the basis of a faculty member's academic performance and output, the union representative said...