Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard members of the Graphic Arts International Union (Local 300) last week presented the University with a list of contract demands, including a substantial wage increase, a built-in cost-of-living clause and a reduction in their work week...
...Local 300 is also demanding improved health and welfare benefits, Polimeno said. "We'd like the University to pay completely for our medical plan instead of for just a portion of it," he said...
Powers declined to comment further except to say, "We don't like to negotiate through the newspapers." Members of Local 300 will meet again October 19 to discuss contract plans...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for labor relations, said yesterday Diane Frazer, and attorney in his office would be handling the negotiations with Local 300, Frazer was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...Council and Harvard had both welcomed Pei's plans; officials went happily about their business, waiting for construction to begin. But when the MBTA was forced to find an alternate location for its carbarn, nobody was selling. Almost a dozen neighborhoods rejected the agency's proposals, refusing to change local zoning laws. As each neighborhood turned the MBTA down, frustration levels rose, Crane says. By 1970, however, rounds of negotiations with Boston officials proved fruitful, a site was secured, and the state spent $53 million to transplant the yards...