Word: afl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different handbills are currently being circulated among University employees. One, a simulated dollar bill, states on one side: "FOR REAL MONEY VOTE AFL". On the other side there is a personal message from George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO. It reads...
...second handbill--a larger one--states in part: "Let's all roll up our sleeves ... '57 is AFL Year at Harvard ... Let's bring a REAL, militant fighting union into Harvard... Your group should be with...
...second time in four years, the AFL is waging an all-out campaign to enlist unskilled University employees. In 1954 the national union was soundly defeated; this spring Local 254 of the AFL Building Service Employees' International Union has assigned five full-time organizers to see that it does not happen again and to assure the addition of 1,100 new members to its ranks...
...employees affected--janitors, groundsmen, maids, maintenance men, and other unskilled groups--have been represented since 1938 by a company Union, the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association. The officers of that group assert that they know of no serious dissatisfaction among their members, and claim that "the AFL hasn't a prayer of a chance here...
...seeking to represent 35 kitchen employees, but its petition to the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission has been contested by both Local 254 and the AFL Cooks and Pastry Cooks International...