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About 25 off-duty Harvard Police patrolmen yesterday left a deadlocked negotiating session in police headquarters and stood for an hour and a half outside the Personnel Office in Holyoke Center, demanding that Police Chief David L. Gorski revoke a decision on a new work shift...
Leaders of the patrolmen's union, police administrators and Edward W. Powers, director of employee relations, then negotiated in the Personnel Office while policemen waited in the hallway outside until the union's president, Lawrence Letteri, came out and told them they had won a postponement of the new shift...
Gorski posted assignments to the late and unpopular shift Tuesday evening, in apparent violation of a clause in the patrolmen's contract that says an opening on a shift must be posted before anyone is assigned...
...angry policemen in the Personnel Office hallway--about half the force's patrolmen--seemed to be upset about more than just a new shift. Their action came at a time when negotiations on a new contract for the patrolmen are at a standstill and many patrolmen strongly disapprove of the direction of the force since Gorski took office earlier this year...
...patrolmen are demanding a salary increase greater than 21 per cent for the next two years, claiming that the cost of living has risen 21 per cent over the last two years...