For the first time, domestic partners will qualify as immediate family members for bereavement purposes.
The negotiated wages and benefits will apply even to outsourced employees in the Harvard Business School.
Although the tone at the union meeting at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church last night--where a song with the lyrics "You Can't Scare Me, I'm Sticking to the Union" played on loudspeakers--was celebratory, union members said they had not predicted the talks would turn out so well.
"We were fully expecting to strike and were ready to do it, but we're always glad not to," Loux said.
The ratification vote was originally expected to be a rally to pressure the University for a better contract.
Wednesday's breakthrough nine-hour session with Harvard administrators came after two days of talks that union officials said went badly.
"Harvard came out swinging, proposing pages and pages of take-aways," Chief Shop Steward of Harvard Local 26 and Adams House chef Edward Childs wrote in an e-mail.
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