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...Norton said that at the beginning of yesterday's session the union said it would accept a two-year contract with a 5.5 per cent wage increase in the first year and a 15 per cent hike in the second--a substantial decrease from the 21.5 per cent second year increase the union asked for at the last bargaining session last month...
...offer apparently came as a surprise to Harvard's representatives, who went into a lengthy caucus and finally rejected the union's proposal, Norton said...
...union then proposed a second cut in wage increases, Norton said, to "probably around 13 per cent" for the second year...
...that point several union representatives had to leave the negotiations, but the federal mediator in the strike, Daniel Hurley, asked the two parties to come together again as soon as possible and eventually set up the Monday date, Norton said...
...union offer also covers the six striking workers from the University Mail and Communications Center and includes a provision guaranteeing that Harvard will rehire everyone now out on strike, Norton said...