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...unionizing of college grinds jibes with the aims of AFL-CIO boss John Sweeney--who has urged the organizing of overseas sweatshop operations and amnesty drives for illegal immigrants--and of the U.A.W. The autoworkers' union also represents the curatorial staff at New York City's Museum of Modern Art; two years ago, it unionized teaching assistants at New York University...
...nine arrested were Stephen N. Smith ’02, Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, Ian Simmons ’98-’00, Harvard Law students Jermaine J. Hughes and Minsu D. Longiaru, janitor Frank Morley, SEIU organizer Jill Hurst, Massachusetts AFL-CIO organizer Kathy Cassavant, and Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers organizer Robert Kelly...
According to a statement released by its producers, Occupation will be distributed nationally by the AFL-CIO and its affiliate, Service Employees International Union, which represents Harvard’s unionized custodians...
...wages higher than the Cambridge “living wage” so strenuously demanded last spring. Also significant is the proposed “parity” wage system that would give outsourced workers and Harvard-employed workers equivalent wages. The parity system, advocated by the AFL-CIO, is a strong inducement to Harvard for good faith collective bargaining and is an exciting measure in its own right. However, in expressing its disappointment at not receiving the empty chalice of a living wage tied to a measure of need, a Crimson staff editorial downplays the call for parity...
...compromise came after a marathon negotiation session that included high-ranking AFL-CIO officials and top Harvard administrators, including General Counsel Anne Taylor and former Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul S. Grogan...