Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's kitchen workers last night voted to reject their latest contract offer and to authorize their union negotiators to call a strike if further negotiations with the University do not produce more favorable terms...
...members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union voted down the contract by a 5-to-4 ratio and then decided by voice vote to authorize a strike at a two-hour meeting, a kitchen worker who asked to remain unidentified said yesterday...
...Coleman read out the terms of the contract, union members continuously shouted derisive comments. "It's a lousy contract -- it's terrible," one member shouted when Coleman began to speak...
...contract, which union officials describe as Harvard's "final offer," contains a wage increase of 6 per cent this year and 7 per cent next year, as well as additional vacation time for employes with ten or more years' service...
...many workers at the meeting criticized the contract because it does not include benefits such as pension plans, dental costs and Blue Cross coverage...