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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some observers are also concerned that the enormous diversity of the 3400-member support staff, whose membership includes library employees, lab research assistants, University mail-deliverers, museum staff and dozens of other jobs, may make a first contract harder to negotiate...
HUCTW representatives, however, say they have drafted a contract proposal that seeks to meet the needs of the union's diverse constituency...
...union's contract proposal, according to long-time organizer Marie Manna, "deals with the salary structure and raise structure, health and dental insurance, pensions, a tuition assistance plan, job descriptions and reclassifications, as well as employee participation in decisions that affect them and their jobs directly...
...past two months, HUCTW and University officials have worked to make the contract negotiations easier. An informal transition team, established to ease the way into formal discussions, met regularly throughout December and January. Both University and union representatives say the meetings have improved relations, which had been strained after the long struggle for unionization...
HUCTW and the University have also created a four-member joint committee to address all worker complaints while the contract negotiations take place. For the union, the grievance board is a first step in its plans to give workers more control over their jobs by decentralizing Harvard decision making...