Word: aflcio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe subcommittee of the Harvard-Radcliffe SDS Campus-Worker-Student Alliance Committee with respect to conditions in the Radcliffe kitchens, I should like to make two comments. First, the College will, of course, carry on all wage and other negotiations through the Building Services Employees International Union, AFLCIO Local 254, as requested by the kitchen workers. It would be illegal as well as undesirable to negotiate with any othergroup. Second, we welcome reports of apparent inequities and suggestions as to possible improvements in working conditions from any concerned individuals and groups, including...
...letter, the workers said that they had voted last year to have AFLCIO Local 254 represent them and that they did not want the students to demonstrate on their behalf. "We are all active paying members [of the local] and in any grievances relating to employment and working conditions we wish to have the unions represent us and not the students!" the letter said...
...biggest unions at Harvard is the 200 member Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association (BGMA), which includes most of B&G's employees with the exception of janitors, maids, students, and unskilled help. The Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association is an independent union, unaffiliated with any outside group like the AFLCIO and it exists only at Harvard. Twenty-five years ago Harvard had only one labor union, the Harvard Employees Representative Association. The craftsmen -- carpenters, plumbers, painters, truck drivers, and electricians -- who believed they were inadequately represented by the allinclusive union, created the BGMA to bargain exclusively for their interests...
...first persons to show an interest in the BGMA's problems was Eddy Sullivan, the business agent for Local 254 of the Building Services Employees International Union (AFLCIO). Sullivan's union represents all sorts of workers who maintain and service buildings. Nearly 2500 of the 5000 members in the local are employed by universities, and dealing with universities is Sullivan's self-professed area of expertise...
...rare display of unity, the AFLCIO International Longshoremen's Association joined with ship owners and the federal government in an effort to get the dockers back to work...