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Harvard's Buildings and Grounds craftsmen may have started a trend last night by voting to dissolve their small independent union and join a group of AFL-CIO unions...
...carpenters, masons, plumbers, painters, electricians, and groundsmen who made up the Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association have decided to become members of the five AFL-CIO craft unions which compose the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council...
...officers say was behind last night's decision, has been felt by members of some of the other independent unions at Harvard. Some observers predict that Harvard Printing Office employees, now represented by the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, will seek to break away and affiliate themselves with an AFL-CIO union...
...some of Harvard's janitors and maids, who are also represented by the HUERA, have expressed an interest in becoming members of an AFL-CIO union...
These people point out that Harvard has been negotiating for new contracts with its labor unions since last July, and that, with one exception, only those unions with professional bargaining agents (AFL-CIO affiliates) have reached settlements...