Word: huctw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has legitimate financial concerns, and it should be able to take certain steps to address them. If HUCTW workers cannot accept the reduced level of benefits offered by Harvard, perhaps they should seek employment elsewhere. Harvard is not obligated to offer a full complement of rich benefits to all of its employees. Furthermore, it is quite reasonable to draw a distinction between Harvard professors and clerical workers and then treat the two groups differently...
Budget cuts are never easy to make. But this year, Harvard has singled out one of its most direly needed programs for cuts. In renegotiating its contract with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), Harvard has slated workers earning less than $15,000 per year for cuts in benefits...
...more probable that Harvard fears its star faculty and experienced administrators would leave if their health and child care benefits--already the best by far in the nation--were curtailed. From the perspective of a University that sometimes courts tenured professors for years, HUCTW's workers are easily replaceable...
...HUCTW, the University's largest union, is currently renegotiating its three-year contract with the University. The issue of benefits appears to be an early sticking point, as evidenced by the release of an open letter earlier this week charging that the University's benefit's package would" hurt the most vulnerable...
Merry Touborg, Director of Communications for the Office of Human Resources, disputed such claims yesterday." The University has just acted on the recommendations of a work/family committee on which HUCTW participated fully," she said. "The University offers a wide array of services to meet family needs and has established an ongoing group in this area...