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Speaker 1: We're considered essential workers, but only when Harvard wants us

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Speaker 1: to be central workers.

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Speaker 2: Or hey, Bias is a Harvard custodian and oversees a

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Speaker 2: crew of five.

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Speaker 1: They're not paying me a Liverpool agent.

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Speaker 2: That's the reason why over eight hundred union custodio workers

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Speaker 2: are taking part in a two day strike at Harvard,

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Speaker 2: and the union says the custodians make just under sixty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year and says that Harvard offered a

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Speaker 2: two point two percent increase Local thirty two BJ spokesperson

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Speaker 2: Frank Soltz it.

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Speaker 3: Was far below what our asking increase was, and also

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Speaker 3: far below what other colleges in the area, like Boston

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Speaker 3: College and Mount Holyoke out in western mass had already

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Speaker 3: signed this year, and those colleges have far smaller endowments

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Speaker 3: than Harvard.

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Speaker 2: From Harvard Yard Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio