Williams said HUCTW representatives have beenconducting formal negotiations with Universityadministrators over the last three weeks and hopeto have a contract ready by June.

Williams said that thus far, she is pleasedwith the HUCTW negotiations--the first revisionsof the contract that the young union negotiatedthree years ago. The union won recognition fromthe University after a lengthy and highlypublicized fight.

But Harry W. Hirtle, shop steward for theGCIU--which represents employees of the Office ofthe University Publisher--said workers there werenot pleased with the results of their contractnegotiations.

The contract was ratified on March 15 after afederal mediator resolved irreconcilabledifference between the union and Universityofficials.

"There's general feeling of dissatisfaction onbehalf of the member," Hirtle said, adding that asthe first Harvard union to renegotiate a contractthis year, the GCIU was in a difficult position.

"I think its just that [the university'srepresentatives] anticipated difficultnegotiations with the rest of the unions, atHarvard, and they had to deal with us first and wewere kind of the model," Hirtle said.

But Monahan said he does not expect upcomingnegotiations with Harvard to be especiallydifficult in light of recent comments by PresidentNeil L. Rudenstine.

"Clearly in Neil's speeches he's continuallytalking about the socially conscious and hedoesn't in any way seem to set an adversarialstage here at the University," Monahan said