Vol.61/No.38 November 3, 1997
Clerical Workers Strike Columbia U.
About 800 members of the United Auto Workers Local 2110 at
Columbia University began a strike October 16 over job
security and a wage increases. The clerical union is asking
for an increase of 3 percent for each of the next three
years. Honoring the pickets professors moved more than 100
classes to locations off campus. "Our union was formed in
1985 because the merit system led to wage disparities and
gross pay inequalities between white workers and minorities,"
said Maida Rosenstein, president of the union. "Equality,
fairness, justice-they [the university] don't seem to
understand that." The union rejected Columbia's proposal of
lengthening the contract, slowing promotions for new hires in
a two-tiered salary scale, and the loss of union jobs.
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