Word: contractive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Citing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ 32 percent salary increase last year, workers said that the University could afford to give them more than the 1.5 percent increase called for in the first year of the proposed contract...
Workers represented by MTC, an association composed of five different unions, have been working without a contract since Dec. 8, 2003. Workers refused to ratify the contract proposal put forward by the University last month...
...worker present at the meeting who did not wish to be identified said that “almost all” of the workers at the meeting voted against the contract and “at least 70 percent” of workers voted in favor of the strike authorization. Official estimates of the vote were not available...
...People were standing up screaming,” said the employee, who voted for the strike authorization and against the contract. “Can you believe it? We’re getting one and a half percent and [Summers] is getting 32 percent increases? Here they are telling us ‘we’re broke, we have no money’ but there was plenty of money to go around for the University’s upper management. I really think that that’s what turned the tide...
...contract rejected on Monday calls for a wage increase of 1.5 percent retroactive to Jan. 1, another 1.5 percent increase in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2 percent increases in each of the next two years and a 3 percent increase in the last year of the contract. Wages will rise by at least ten percent by the end of the contract—much less than the 20-plus percent increase workers received over the life of their last agreement...