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Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254, which represents Harvard janitors, has called for a higher wage than the figure offered in the HCECP report. SEIU asked for base wages beginning at $14 and increasing to $15.50 over the three years that will be covered by the new contract...
...fifth week of contract negotiations began, representatives of Harvard custodial workers’ union said talks with the University on wages and benefits were at a “stalemate” yesterday...
...added that it was unlikely workers would agree to a contract that raised wages without improving benefits...
Jairo Dias, an SEIU organizer, said the current contract prohibits custodial workers from striking but that the union intended to eliminate that provision from the new contract...
...Contract negotiations between the janitors’ union, the Service Employees International Union Local 254, and the Harvard administration began on Jan. 22, eight months ahead of schedule, due to the agreement that resulted from last spring’s student sit-in in Mass. Hall. During the last three weeks, we have witnessed these negotiations firsthand, and we have been extremely disappointed. The process has not been the civil exchange between honest and respectful partners that Summers and the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies have implied it is in their repeated exaltations of the collective bargaining process...