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After many breathless months of stalled negotiations and strikes, the pact reached last Thursday by Yale and two striking labor unions will provide long overdue relief to a campus divided. The contract will give clerical, maintenance and dining hall workers generous raises over its eight year span—retroactive to the time the last contract expired—as well as increase pension payments for the workers...
...agreement ends a three-week strike by the workers, who have been employed without a contract since January 2002. Along with the inconvenience of closed dining halls and curtailed student services, the standoff put Yale students in the awkward situation of having to cross picket lines to get to class. Hopefully the contract will prevent any recurrence of such turmoil in the near future...
Schools must recognize the integral role played by its support staff. A university could no better perform its role without such support staff than without professors or students. Yale’s workers have earned the right to a decent living standard and a comfortable retirement. The contract makes sure they receive what they deserve...
...complaint, the union argues that Harvard had effected “unilateral change of term of employment” by “curtail[ing] employee vacation benefits in violation of contract and practice, thereby constituting refusal to bargain...
This August, she filed suit against Harvard on two counts of discrimination and a breach of contract and implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing...