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University officials say they are attempting to protect employees from unions that, according to administrators, do not always represent the employees' interests. "The university position is to provide the other side of the story. There is nothing that a union will gain for its employees," says Pete Tufford, director of employee relations at Cornell University...
According to the settlement, no worker will receive starting pay of less than $5.18 an hour, a 38 cent increase from starting pay before the agreement, said the university's chief negotiator, E. Peter Tufford...
...opinion, [the hearing] is a smokescreen," said Tufford. He said he thought the terms of the agreement were fair...
...There was a certain amount of disturbance, but it didn't interrupt [the scheduled activities]" said E. Peter Tufford, manager of employee relations at Cornell...
...Tufford said that this it is not true that there are many workers below the poverty line. He said that although there are over 200 people in the union receiving yearly salaries below the official federal poverty level of $11,200 for a family of four, none are below the individual level...