The new staff is increasingly made up of"part-timers," who despite this designationfrequently work 40 hours a week.

One source familiar with the situation chargesthat the composition of the new staff is drivennot by a need for better security but by a desireto cut costs.

The source says Associate Director of LaborRelations Carolyn R. Young '76 and Trifiro removedHarvard security guards from the museum in orderto make more money. While Harvard guards receivedovertime pay for monitoring specific museumfunctions, the Fogg's own attendants receive onlytheir regular pay--and the museum gets asubstantial revenue boost.

"She's handling her own group now," Manoukiansays. "There are some things that sure are alittle too much, but I'm not running the show."

Trifiro attended part of a meeting of membersof the attendants' union at the Fogg Thursday.During the meeting, attendants questioned hermotives in creating a new pay category of"part-time" attendants.

Prior to a bargain struck last June betweenHarvard and the attendants' union--ServiceEmployees International Union Local 254--themuseum hired three different types of attendantsat three different levels of pay: day guards,night guards, and limited regular guards.

Under the union agreement which expiredNovember 15, 1992, but is still being used, dayguards are supposed to be paid $9.52 per hour.

But attendants hired since Trifiro's takeoversay they have been hired as a fourth class of dayattendants not covered by the contract: dayattendants who are paid only $7.35 per hour.

These attendants, who pay $12 each month inunion dues, say they have never seen a copy ofHarvard's current union agreement, which wassigned last June. Director of Labor RelationsTimothy Manning says the agreement is in effectbut has not been printed.

"The thing was negotiated last year and inrecent weeks we put the finishing touches on it,"Manning says.

Although Manning says he is unsure whether thenew agreement contains a new category ofattendant, he says attendants should not beconcerned about the University's year-long delayin producing a written copy of the agreement.

"I don't think it's a big deal [that] theydon't have a copy of the agreement," Manning says.

Kathleen Conway, the business agent for Local254, said last week that the contract had beennegotiated "but not physically completed."

"Folks do have a document that contains theconceptual changes and those things get foldedinto the contract structure," Conway says.

But none of the attendants interviewed saidthey had seen a document detailing any changes tothe contract they work under.