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Lead Harvard negotiator David A. Jones said press accounts had downplayed the Tuesday arrests, and he maintained that, disappointed by press coverage, the union had decided to make compromises.
“If [the protest] had been viewed by the union as more successful, we probably wouldn’t have seen as much movement,” Jones said early yesterday evening. “People, including the media, are starting to take notice of how unreasonable the...
Harvard’s new offer of an $11.35 per hour base wage was proposed informally to union officials by e-mail last week but was only offered officially yesterday morning. Jones said Harvard had intended to offer the $11.35 figure at the end of the most recent bargaining session...
But David A. Jones, who directs Harvard’s Office of Labor and Employee Relations and is lead negotiator for the University, called the rally “unfortunate” and “unproductive” and said that such tactics only disturbed the negotiation process.
Jones said Harvard was considering what he termed the “me-too doctrine,” where the dining and security worker unions would expect the same wage figures as the University would pay the janitors.