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The new painters' contract-the result of an agreement reached Dec. 11 between Harvard and the Boston and Vicinity Crafts Maintenance Council-provides for a six-member committee made up of three Harvard representatives and three from the painters' union which will set up an apprenticeship program to upgrade the...
The new contract in part meets the OBU demand-issued during the Dec. 5 occupation of University Hall-that Harvard abolish the painters' helpers category and immediately promote the helpers to journeymen painters.
Current helpers will be placed in the apprentice program according to the extent of their previous experience. This means experienced helpers will not have to complete the entire apprentice program to become journeymen.
Other OBU demands-centering primarily around the demand that 20 percent of the construction workers employed by the University be black or "third world"-apparently are no closer to being met than they were three weeks ago, when OBU called off talks with the Administration.
OBU had no official statement last night on either the new painters' contract or the state of other negotiations.