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...HUCTW director Bill Jaeger declined to comment on the Socialist Alternative and the No Layoffs Campaign. The union’s leaders have traditionally chosen not to respond to attacks from the group’s members, defending their own negotiating tactics by pointing to recent wage increases and gains in work security...
...constrained only in relation to some of those years in the ’90s when the available revenue increased by as much as 20 or 30 percent per year,” said Bill Jaeger, director of the 4,800-member Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). “Departments were finding themselves with millions and millions of dollars to budget, and no one had to say ‘no’ to anything. It’s a little bit more real-world around here now, and all the schools and departments are finding...
Activist groups such as the No Layoffs Campaign have staged rallies and repeatedly pointed to the University’s $19.3-billion endowment as proof that the layoffs were unnecessary. HUCTW leaders were more sympathetic toward the administration, taking steps to adjust to changing financial priorities and restrictions on the endowment...
...workers and activists organized protest after protest outside of the Holyoke Center, through Harvard Yard and around Mass. Hall this year, leaders at MTC and HUCTW stayed indoors, negotiating for better wages and work security, respectively...
...recently completed HUCTW contract, which will come before the membership in a June 17 vote, would establish a centralized office responsible for enforcing the existing job-security rules. These regulations mandate that the University give preference to laid-off employees when filling new job openings. According to the union’s leadership, the contract also guarantees workers steady wage increases over the next three years, which would accumulate approximately to a 12-percent hike by the end of fiscal year...