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HUCTW director Bill Jaeger declined to comment on the Socialist Alternative and the No Layoffs Campaign. The union??s leaders have traditionally chosen not to respond to attacks from the group’s members, defending their own negotiating tactics by pointing to recent wage increases and gains in work security...
...dissimilitude between the terms ‘civil union?? and ‘civil marriage’ is not innocuous; it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples to second-class status,” the justices wrote in their majority opinion...
...recently completed HUCTW contract, which will come before the membership in a June 17 vote, would establish a centralized office responsible for enforcing the existing job-security rules. These regulations mandate that the University give preference to laid-off employees when filling new job openings. According to the union??s leadership, the contract also guarantees workers steady wage increases over the next three years, which would accumulate approximately to a 12-percent hike by the end of fiscal year...
Although some critics, citing a four-month delay in the first-year wage increase, have questioned the union??s math in calculating the spoils of the new contract, Jaeger said the uncharacteristically large raise percentage is reflective of the University’s attitude toward its workforce...
According to University Director of Labor Relations Bill Murphy, Harvard has responded positively to the union??s reasoning...