Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BGMA sent out a letter Friday to its membership and to other University employees insisting that if a "work-stoppage is necessary" to get the University to recognize the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council, the BGMA's newly elected bargaining agent, it will go out on strike...
Harvard contends that a special state-run election should determine who is the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership. But Union officials point to the overwhelmingly clear status of the vote which authorized the Crafts Council as the bargaining agent and to the fact that a large back-log of cases would make a state election nearly a year away as reasons why Harvard should recognize the Crafts Council...
...unions the BGMA rejected, the Buildings Services Employees International (AFL-CIO), has wanted to organize Harvard workers for a long time. It claims that some 15 BGMA members signed cards authorizing it as the bargaining agent. It has yet to produce these cards, but on the basis of its claim Harvard broke off contract negotiations with the BGMA last fall. The University has since refused to recognize the Crafts Maintenance Council as the BGMA's bargaining agent...
...BGMA men, working for wages computed in 1964, have been unable to negotiate a new contract. Considering the inequity of their wage scale, a strike would be predictable; given Harvard's insulting posture of refusing to recognize the properly chosen bargaining agent of these workmen, the strike would be justified. Harvard contends that it will wait for the results of a state-run election to determine the bargaining agent for the BGMA men. Such an election is perhaps a year away, and even then Harvard, as a non-profit institution, is not legally bound to recognize whatever union is declared...
Harvard seems intent, as in the case of the already striking Printers and Photoengravers, on breaking the power of the unions. There is no reason why the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council should not immediately be recognized as the bargaining agent for the BGMA. But management seems content to follow a 19th century labor policy, even if it means shutting the University down...