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...janitors?? agreement, reached after six weeks of negotiations, raises wages to $11.35—$11.50 for janitors with three years at Harvard. By October 2005, the starting wage will go up to $13.50, with $14 per hour going to those with three years...
Though union leaders called the agreement a victory, PSLM members issued a statement Thursday saying Harvard’s final offer of $11.35—while an improvement—was still “unresponsive to [janitors??] expressions of need...
...this sounds innocuous enough, and yet the janitors?? renegotiations demonstrate how pernicious no strike clauses can be. The last contract the janitors made was negotiated by a union that was so notoriously corrupt it was put under international trusteeship in 2001. The more robust union representing the janitors today wanted to renegotiate that contract early, and it was able to do so as a result of the labor demonstrations last spring. But since the negotiations were conducted nine months before the old contract was fit to expire, the no strike clause was firmly in effect, limiting the union?...
...bargaining and that people had to be arrested to get Harvard to make a respectable offer,” said PSLM member Alexander B. Horowitz ’02. “If the rank and file ratify the contract on Friday, we certainly support that. And the janitors?? organizing efforts have really paid...
...janitors contract is one of several that Harvard will be renegotiating this spring. Talks between the University and the dining workers union opened last week, and bargaining with the security guards union will begin in the next few weeks. Unlike the negotiations with SEIU, which encompassed the janitors?? entire contract, Jones said these talks will only consider wages and are likely to be less complicated...