Word: nigro
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Earlier in the spring, the University's chief negotiator, Edward W. Powers, downplayed support given the contract at Wednesday's meeting when a large majority of the more than 200 workers present voted in favor of the agreement. Joseph Nigro, a member of the union negotiating committee, estimated 80 percent supported the agreement...
...Joseph Nigro, a member of the union's negotiating committee, emphasized yesterday that the initial union wage proposal was flexible. "An initial offer is pie-in-the-sky, a dream offer," he said...
...with a wage increase somewhere our initial offer and their initial offer, most of the time you have a good increase," Nigro said...
...council also wants to offer University trade workers the unions' own health plans, Nigro said. These health plans are cheaper than Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance, so that Harvard could pay a larger share of health costs with one of the union plans and still save money, Nigro said...
...trade unions are particularly upset about University policy of contracting maintenance of its real estate holdings rather than using Harvard union workers, Nigro said...