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As agreed upon in a previous contract, employees would recieve a cost of living raise equal to 40 per cent of the federal government's cost of living standard. Donald M. Stevens, director of employee relations at Yale and spokesman for the bargaining committee said this would fall between 16...
Sirabella said the union wanted an agreement over job security because Yale "is slashing jobs and chopping hours." Stevens said there are the same number of employees in the bargaining unit as in 1974 but admitted there were more students and part-time workers this year.
Sirabella accused Yale of trying to provoke a strike in July when there was little demand for their services but Stevens denied the charge.
Stevens said the union leadership has been encouraged by "being somewhat successful in its other strikes."
Yale is preparing for a protracted strike, Stevens said, adding, "We will not go into arbitration," fact finding or any other conciliatory measure beyond mediation