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...Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission has ruled that the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO) is the "exclusive representative" of the B & G employees for purposes of collective bargaining with Harvard. A spokesman said last night that the University is ready to resume contract talks with the BCMC's negotiators as soon as they are prepared--probably some time this month...
...unions, the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO), has held that the BGMA voted unofficially last fall to affiliate with it. Two other unions, the Building Services Employes International and a group seeking to keep the name BGMA, have also claimed to represent the B&G workers. The University has insisted upon an election, supervised by the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board, in order to maintain its objectivity as the management party. Therefore Harvard has not recognized the BCMC as the official union...
...Harvard did not and would not recognize the Crafts Maintenance Council as the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership. The University pointed out that another union, the Building Services Employees International (AFL-CIO) claimed that it represented the BMGA membership and that the BSEIU had filed petitions with the Massachusetts State Labor Relations Board making such claims. The University said that as an employer it would violate national labor policy by arbitrarily choosing one of the contesting unions as the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership. It therefore counseled patience and said that it would let a state labor board...
...BGMA and BCMC people saw the situation in another light, however. To them, the claims of the Building Service Employees' Union that it represented the BGMA membership were obviously ridiculous. In the summer and fall of 1966 when the BGMA was considering affiliation with an AFL-CIO union, the BSEIU, which represents maintenance workers at many colleges and universities, was one of the ones they turned to. BSEIU officers even sent a supply of cards, which if signed by a majority of the BGMA membership, would have designated the BSEIU as the official bargaining agent for the membership...
...long ago, one of the BCMC's component unions, the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL-CIO) (which has a branch at Harvard) won a State Board election to represent some workers at the Worcester (Mass.) Hospital. The Hospital took the state labor relations board to court. In a decision which the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld, a Superior Court set aside the election on the grounds that the state board had no jurisdiction with a non-profit institution...