Maids Receive Shorter Week

The maids at Radcliffe have voted to take a cut in pay rather than work on week-ends.

According to Richard Mulhern, spokesman for local 254 of the Building Services Employees International Union, the maids have requested a five-day week each year for the past six, but until now they have been unwilling to lose the four hours' wages which they earn on Saturdays.

In negotiations this fall, however, they received an 18 cent hourly pay raise, so that their salary would not be decreased severely if the stopped working on Saturdays. Mulhern estimates that the maids will lose about four dollars a week.

The Building Services Union also represents Harvard maids and dining hall workers. Mulhern noted that the maids at Radcliffe "have always felt that Harvard didn't work six days, and they didn't want to either."