Negotiators for the University and the libraries union met Thursday for the first time since last Friday, with the thrice-extended union contract set to expire Monday, more than a month past its original expiration date.
At their meeting Monday, union members voted down the University's offer per the union bargaining committee's recommendation.
"The members expressed to us distress that the University was asking them to do what wasn't possible," Karen McAninch '74, the union's business agent, said. She said concern over increasing employee contributions to health care premiums and issues relating to the preservation of work dominated the members' meeting Monday.
McAninch said Thursday was the first date that worked for the University and the union after the proposal was voted down, but they could only fit about three hours in.
Friday's negotiations will start at 2:30 p.m. in the Rockefeller Library.
The talks will follow a rally hosted by the Student Labor Alliance beginning at 2 p.m. outside of University Hall.
SLA member Lenora Knowles '11 said delegations of an unspecified size may go to the offices of unnamed "key players in the negotiations" after the rally.
"They know who they are," Knowles said of the unnamed administrators. SLA sent delegations to administrators earlier this week, but she said Friday's delegations will be larger.
Knowles said the rally will also likely entail a march to the Rock and the Sciences Library.
"If workers aren't happy with what's going on, students will act accordingly," she said. "And what we're doing Friday is not an end."