Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the vote to affiliate with the BCMC had been overwhelmingly clear, the Crafts Maintenance Council expected that Harvard would readily recognize it as the bargaining agent for the old BGMA membership, much as the University had recognized the LPIU as the printing office employees' bargainer...
...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...
...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...
...union officers also could not understand why Harvard was not willing to accept the results of the December 7, 1966, merger vote as sign of the intent of the BGMA's membership, nor could they understand why Harvard was unwilling to hold its own election to select a bargaining agent for the BGMA...
Especially galling to the BGMA membership was Harvard's recognition of the LPIU as the bargaining agent for the 34 Printing Office employees. They did not see any difference between their move to affiliate with the BCMC and the printing employees' affiliation with the LPIU. As negotiations between the University and the LPIU began to falter, however, many BGMA members grew more convinced that Harvard, underneath it all, was really antiunion...