Word: strikeingly
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Another worker who also did not want to be identified said that workers were wrong to vote in favor of the strike authorization...
...strike authorization gives the University 30 days to respond with a counter-offer before the workers walk...
...worker present at the meeting who did not wish to be identified said that “almost all” of the workers at the meeting voted against the contract and “at least 70 percent” of workers voted in favor of the strike authorization. Official estimates of the vote were not available...
...People were standing up screaming,” said the employee, who voted for the strike authorization and against the contract. “Can you believe it? We’re getting one and a half percent and [Summers] is getting 32 percent increases? Here they are telling us ‘we’re broke, we have no money’ but there was plenty of money to go around for the University’s upper management. I really think that that’s what turned the tide...
...think it was just too soon to vote for a strike,” said the employee, who has worked at Harvard for 25 years. “It was only the second meeting that everyone had to discuss the contract negotiations. I don’t want to lose my job over a stupid thing like a strike...