Word: waging
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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...
...haven’t met Bar Am yet, you have likely heard about his antics over the past four years. Bar Am has been identified as a liberal voice on campus, as one of the Progressive Student Labor Movement protestors who lodged himself in Massachusetts Halls during the Living Wage sit-in in 2001, as the founder of HIFT and recently, as one of the four Harvard students arrested at an international trade protest in Miami...
...They would love to get that out. Every year, that’s the first thing they ask for,” he said, adding that a higher wage increase—3 percent for the first year—is all he wants...
...worker, an electrician who asked to remain anonymous, said that although the MTC—a coalition of five smaller campus unions—has the only contract at Harvard with an absolute “no layoffs” clause, the 1.5-percent first-year wage increase being offered by the University is too low in light of the wages paid to University higher...
...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...