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Cornell University service and maintenance workers, without a wage settlement since June, have set a strike deadline of next Tuesday, the president of Ithaca's United Auto Workers (UAW) said yesterday...
Cornell has 900 service and maintenance workers, 700 of whom are represented by the UAW. They include the university's dining hall workers, custodians, and groundskeepers...
...This is not a basis for settlement," said Ithaca's UAW President Al Davidoff of the new offer. He said the union and the university were still at odds over the extent of poverty among union workers, and over the system by which wages should be increased for senior workers...
...affiliation with AFSCME marks the end to a more than a year long period when the local labor leaders rejected affiliation with their previous parent union, the United Auto Workers (UAW). As recently as 1982 Harvard support staff in the Medical Area voted down unionization, but union officials are confident that by affiliating with AFSCME they will get the boost to successfully and their 15 year effort to organize University clerical workers...
...UAW has "a core group" of about 35 supporters, said Rahke...