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Bargainers for the United Auto Workers (UAW) lowered their demand for a 16 percent increase in the total wage pool to 13 percent, but Cornell administrators are willing to give only an 8 percent increase, said David I. Stewart, assistant to the vice president for university relations...
...UAW President Al Davidoff said the average starting pay for Cornell service and maintenance workers is $4.66 an hour. Davidoff said the administration has "acknowledged that the problem exists but the sensitivity to acknowledge is not the will to do something about...
...university officials disagree with both UAW's assessment of Cornell's funds and its comparisons with worker payments at other schools. "The union has been using numbers that don't match up with anything," Stewart said, adding that the union compared figures from Cornell's 1986 payments to SUNY's 1987 wages...
...past HUCTW has been at odds with another national union, the United Auto Workers (UAW). Leaders of the local union broke off from UAW, which now maintains a separate Harvard organizing effort. Leaders of HUCTW say their relationship with AFSCME has been much more amicable...
...university "doesn't acknowledge the true extent of poverty," he said. UAW bargainers have stated that many union workers exist at income levels far below the federal poverty level...