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Janitors at Tufts University have approved a new three-year contract with the school’s custodial subcontractor that includes a wage floor of $11.45 per hour for all custodians and employer-supported family health insurance for full-time employees...
...contract will begin a program of wage hikes in January 2002 and continue through the duration of the contract. According to the union, the $11.45 wage floor will take effect in January...
According to Rocio Saenz, deputy trustee of Local 26, the goal of the union negotiators was “equal pay for equal work”—bringing up the wages of part-time custodians to match that of full-timers. The union expects the new contract will create more opportunities for employees to work full-time, she added...
...addition to the wage floor, the deal will also protect workers’ employment should Tufts change subcontractors again—Tufts switched to OneSource in 1997, after its 1994 contract with UNICCO, a private custodial company, expired. “Job security was a key,” Saenz said, because Tufts’ current contract with OneSource only lasts until...
...Tufts contract] definitely changes the way we’ll be operating at Harvard. It was not just about Tufts, it was about Harvard, and janitors downtown, for the fights we’ll be facing in the future,” Saenz said...