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...expenditures. People who work in Boston but do not pay taxes there raise the cost of items like police protection and traffic control. Since the war, many Bostonians have moved into the suburbs, which means that the city has to provide more fees services. The police and fire departments five-day week and Boston's large share of the MTA's yearly deficit have also been expensive. There have been inerased wages for city employees, and more old-age assistance, etc. With costs going up and assessments going down, the tax rate is bound to rise...
September 26--Maids go on five-day week...
University employees made their second major gain in two weeks yesterday as negotiations ended on a five percent wage increase for hourly-paid workers. At the beginning of the month, all salaried personnel went on a five-day week...
...salaried employees of the University will go on a five-day work week beginning Monday, December 2, vice-President Reynolds and Provost Buck announced yesterday. Almost all offices will now be closed on Saturdays...
...most recent agreement between union and University was reached last spring when a five-day work week for the maids brought an hourly wage increase from 75 to 82 cents. Mulvihill noted that "with the four-cent weekly pay increase the University ceased to engage the usual number of maids, increasing the work of each maid by adding an average of four extra students to those whom she already had been working...