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During President Harry S. Truman’s administration, Cox headed the Wage Stabilization Board for a time but quit when Truman rejected a restricted wage increase proposal...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) announced the agreement yesterday in a joint statement with the University, establishing yearly wage increases and a new, centralized office that will enforce hiring preference for workers facing layoffs across Harvard...
Although the proposed salary terms will give unionized staff a relatively high 4.5-percent wage increase for the contract’s first two years and an additional, compounded 5-percent increase for the third, employees will not see any change to their salaries until November 2004—four months after the new contract goes into effect...
...contract rejected on Monday calls for a wage increase of 1.5 percent retroactive to Jan. 1, another 1.5 percent increase in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2 percent increases in each of the next two years and a 3 percent increase in the last year of the contract. Wages will rise by at least ten percent by the end of the contract—much less than the 20-plus percent increase workers received over the life of their last agreement...
That employee said that she voted against the contract because the University will apply the retroactive 1.5 percent wage increase back to Jan. 1 of this year, instead of expanding it back to Dec. 8—the day the old contract expired...