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...attempt to highlight the need for daycare, health care and more flexible working hours, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) held a rally outside of Holyoke Center yesterday with bouquets of balloons, hand-lettered signs and a man in a purple dinosaur costume...
...yesterday. Among them were a dozen children of union members, carrying signs reading "Another Union baby for day care" and "My mom needs child care." At the center of the circle was a man dressed as Barney, the popular purple cartoon character, and Donene Williams, the president of HUCTW. Barney clutched balloons while Williams held a megaphone...
...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...
...HUCTW's current contract is scheduled to expire on June 30, and the last round of negotiations over staff contracts dragged on for more than six months...
Both sides hope to avoid a repetition of that acrimonious negotiation, in which charges of disinformation, betrayal and surliness were made by HUCTW and an outside mediator was called in an effort to restart the stalled process...