Their pre-layoff salaries must range from $25,000 to $75,000.
In July, Arrow announced cost containments, including more than 1,200 layoffs, salary reductions and cuts in discretionary spending.
Nonetheless, Mr. Wagner said, income from research grants grew enough so that he expects no layoffs, salary freezes or large tuition increases.
A year after a disastrous 27 percent decline that prompted layoffs, salary freezes and a halt to some campus expansion, the Harvard endowment on Thursday reported a solid 11 percent increase in its $27.4 billion portfolio for the fiscal year ended June 30.
Long reliant on government subsidies, they avoided the layoffs, salary cuts and ticket increases that struck American museums hard in 2009 when the endowments upon which they depend plunged with the financial crisis.
Union officials warned that the strike could be the first of a series of walkouts here in the next few months, reflecting growing unhappiness over layoffs, salary freezes, tax increases and a persistently sluggish economy.
If those expectations continue to decline, they will aggravate fears of a deflationary spiral, in which people begin to save money because they are worried about layoffs, salary cuts and debt payments and because they expect the prices of many products to fall in the months ahead.
Now, Chinese white-collar businesses are starting rounds of layoffs, slashing salaries and cutting the year-end bonuses that employees highly prize.
(Layoffs and salary cuts were also considered).
H. P. has spent the last year reworking E.D.S.'s cost structure through extensive layoffs and salary cuts.
Strikers scuffled with police at Madrid's Barajas airport, where demonstrators held a sit-in to protest against plans for compulsory layoffs and salary cuts.
