Word: union
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Indeed, most of the union's demands are identical to those suggested in a report written more than two years ago by the University's current child care negotiator, Simone Reagor. But the negotiating team which has been trying for the past four months to reach a specific agreement on child care terms has not been able...
Reagor says that the disagreement comes when the two sides "get down to the dollar issues. The union wants the same things we do, they just want more funding than the University can afford to give...
...progressive, just realistic," Hiattsays. "We've been in the child care business for18 years now." At Stride Rite, unions have not hadto bargain for child care because of Hiatt'sinitiatives. "We've never been approached by aunion [about child care]," Hiatt says. "It's neverbeen a union issue. It's been a management issue...
Because of its 83 percent female workforce, thesupport staff union at Harvard has organized, andis now negotiating, around such "family issues" asaffordable day care. In the current negotiations,the union has pressed for a broad platform ofchanges, going from large increases in child careto paid parental leave and scholarship money forday care...
Should the contract agreed on by the Universityand the union address these issues, many observerssay it will serve as a beacon of change in thefield of campus labor relations...