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Harvard custodial workers OK strike

Authorize action if contract talks fail by deadline

By Shelley Murphy

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 13, 2011

CAMBRIDGE - Harvard University custodians voted unanimously yesterday to strike if their union’s bargaining committee fails to negotiate a new contract with the college before it expires at the end of Tuesday, according to union officials. “All of the people who have cleaned and worked very hard for many years at Harvard are going to do whatever it takes, including strike, to make sure Harvard does the right thing for all workers,’’ said Rocio Saenz, president of Local 615 of the Service Employees International Union.

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