Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a strike authorization vote by Harvard's kitchen workers last night, the University's chief labor negotiator said yesterday he does not believe the workers will strike. He also said he may retract some of the concessions made in Harvard's current contract offer if the union wants to renegotiate the pact...
...union's negotiating committee accepted the contract. It was rejected, however, by the union membership. The contract provides for wage increases and additional vacations, but does not include the changes in pension, dental and Blue Cross coverage desired by the union...
Powers said he believes Harvard's contract offer is very generous, because Harvard traditionally pays kitchen workers higher wages than any outside employer...
Powers also said he believes Peoples "negotiated in bad faith" because he criticized the contract publicly last week and called for a strike...
Peoples said he in fact did not call for a strike last week. However if the union membership rejected the contract, he said the workers should then vote to strike as a back-up to their negotiators at the bargaining table...