Word: huctw
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Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), said all Harvard-associated unions agree that minimum standards in labor practices are necessary...
Rising health care costs are making it harder than ever for Harvard's workers to make ends meet. Under the current health care benefits package that the University offers to members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), each worker is required to pay a $10 co-payment each time he or she or a family member visits the doctor. A proposal under consideration by the Joint Committee on Benefits (JCB), a committee consisting of faculty members, University administrators, and members of HUCTW, would cap the co-payments at $100 per family each year...
...which has a subcommittee devoted solely to the subject of copayments, has been meeting for several months. Before the JCB was created with the signing of a new contract, HUCTW negotiators pointed to the co-payment as one of the chief difficulties in the benefits package...
...letter sent to Union members in October, the HUCTW leadership said that before the new benefits package took effect this year, some changes would be considered, but yesterday was the first time any alteration was publicly expressed...
Jaeger said HUCTW leaders have been in close contact with members who are particularly concerned about co-payments...