Negotiations Start With City Workers

Members of the largest municipal union in Cambridge stopped picketing Friday as the city greed to meet union representatives to negotiate it new contract.

The Cambridge City Employees Union, representing 375 members of the Department of Public Works, had refused to work overtime and were picketing City Hall must the city agreed to renegotiate the labor contract which expired December 31.

James F. Cassidy, head of the union, said yesterday that negotiate were in full wring and that the parties were "and law for apart." The length of the new contract in the remaining point of contention, he said.

John N. Corcoran Cambridge City Manager, who heads the three-member groups representing the City, was unavailable for comment.