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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a 36 hour-negotiation session, the workers had a new four-year contract. The university agreed to union demands to change the present system of classifying jobs, which unions said allowed for discrimination against women and minorities. In addition, the new contract provides for a 26.2 percent pay increase over the four years, and guarantees that maintenance workers will not be laid...

Author: By Matthew L. Schuerman, | Title: Of Strikes and Settlements: Unions Confront Universities | 2/6/1988 | See Source »

...effort to make the process moreinformal to the extent that Overseers who hadconcerns would be provided with information asopposed to members putting forth propositions forthe Board to vote on and present to theCorporation," Wahsington said, adding that themain concerns members of the Board had voiced wereabout divestment, unionization, and the tenurebattles at the Law School...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Overseers Meeting To Skip Divestment | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...agree that mixed-income housing is something we want to promote in Central Square," David Sullivan said. But he added, "I think the proper philosophy here is to give developers incentives from downzoning, [then] allow them to go back to present limits if they provide low to moderate income housing...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Council Debates Plan to Revamp Central Sq. | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

Perry, who teaches undergraduate courses on civil liberties and constitutional law, said he was invited by Maier to present an outline of what the Supreme Court has said about free speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Judicial Board Meeting | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

...must be "treated with respect and worn on appropriate occasions only." This ruled out sporting one on the subway, at the fish market, over sweat pants or before 6 p.m. Tradition further dictated that unless she was a starlet or worse, a woman waited for her husband to present her with a coat on her 50th birthday, to mark her arrival as a Matron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Why Wait for a Man to Buy One? | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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