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Speaker 1: Frustrated Harvard custodians, students, and supporters gathered in Harvard Yard,

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Speaker 1: demanding higher pay amid rising costs.

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Speaker 2: They can do this. They have the money, the higher

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Speaker 2: the ability.

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Speaker 1: Representative Marjorie Decker was there alongside SEIU members. The union

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Speaker 1: says around eight hundred of its members work as custodians

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Speaker 1: at the university, and that Harvard is offering two dollars

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Speaker 1: and ninety cents an hourly wage increases over a four

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Speaker 1: year contract. They've been in negotiation since last month, when

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Speaker 1: hundreds of custodians walked off the job in a series

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Speaker 1: of one day strikes. Finlay Adamson is a student here.

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Speaker 3: We think that if Boston College can do it and

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Speaker 3: not Holyyoke College can do it, Harvard can do it.

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Speaker 1: Harvard tells WBZ News Radio the university values its custodial

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Speaker 1: team and that they're offering a two thousand dollars bonus

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Speaker 1: and a proposed five year contract with pay increases. They

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Speaker 1: say is a competitive offer at Harvard. I'm a freedman. WVZ,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio