Word: afl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...groups choose to join the AFL, they may be called out on a sympathy strike by the union, even though Harvard pays the highest wages of any institution. The AFL could first vote to strike for equal wages at other schools and then force a sympathy strike here...
...maids and janitors, now units in the HUERA, will vote as separate units. It is possible that one group will choose to stay with the HUERA and the other go over to the AFL...
...Matthew L. McGrath, New England director of the AFL affiliated Building Service Employees International Association, is also confident. "We are sure to win by at least five to one," he said...
Almost 600 employees are eligible to vote. Informed opinion gives the maids a slight edge towards the AFL but says the janitors will stay with the HUERA. The janitors fear pay losses from a strike if they join the AFL. The maids feel that the possible increased power that an AFL affiliation would give them in their dealings with the University would help them get the higher wages and more rigidly enforced seniority rules that they are now asking. The HUERA is also asking for substantial pay increases...
...AFL Building Service Employees Union is currently bidding to add the University's maids and janitors to its ranks...