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To the Editor: 

University of California spokesperson Paul Schwartz told your reporter (Daily Planet, Nov. 5), “We don't have any more movement to make on wages,” in commenting on contract negotiations between UC and the clerical workers' union, the Coalition of University Employees (CUE). I hate to be quite so blunt, but the university is lying. The truth is that the university has made absolutely no movement whatsoever on wages throughout the course of negotiations. Its 3.5 percent offer, to be spread over three years, has not changed one iota. 

CUE, on the other hand, has made movement by changing its 15 percent wage request from being paid in one year to being spread over two years. It is disgusting, not only to read about UC's continuing intransigence over giving some of its lowest-paid employees a decent salary increase, but also to have to read UC's blatant lying. 

Alan Collins 

UC Berkeley