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Yesterday’s session, the sixth since talks started in January, saw progress on wage and benefit issues throughout the day—unlike the most recent meetings, where both sides had made competing offers but negotiators had left frustrated...
Until yesterday Harvard’s highest official offer had been a base wage of $11 per hour, while the union had been asking...
...settlement gives janitors slightly more than the base wage suggested by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, which recommended this winter that Harvard’s lowest-paid workers earn at least $10.83 to $11.30 an hour...
...addition to the higher wage levels, Harvard agreed to a union proposal that offers health care without worker co-payments, using a fund paid for by Harvard and administered by the union. The agreement also includes a “parity” provision: the University will require contractors to pay outsourced workers wages and benefits that, in total, are comparable to what Harvard pays its own workers...
Harvard’s new offer of an $11.35 per hour base wage was proposed informally to union officials by e-mail last week but was only offered officially yesterday morning. Jones said Harvard had intended to offer the $11.35 figure at the end of the most recent bargaining session on Feb. 19, which came to a close when union negotiators left to attend a practice session in preparation for Tuesday’s protest...