Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early December, the BCMC business agents met with the BGMA membership and explained their proposal. Two weeks later the BGMA membership met and voted to assimilate themselves into the Boston Crafts Manitenance Council and to have the Council perform all bargaining functions. The Council, therefore, expected the University to recognize it as the agent for the old BGMA membership. But, a short time before the election John W. Teele, director of Harvard personnel, had received a telegram from Eddy Sullivan declaring that the BSEIU was the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership because of the authorization cards. After negotiating...
...some it seemed as if Sullivan would have no trouble getting the BGMA membership to designate his union as their bargaining agent. He even sent a supply of "authorization cards," which, if signed by a majority of the BGMA members, would have made Sullivan the bargaining agent. But something called "trade identity" was to play a much larger role in the BGMA's search for a new union than Sullivan had, perhaps, expected...
...BGMA officers did not daunt Sullivan. He insisted (and still does) that a majority of the BGMA's members had signed his "authorization cards" and that the BGMA officers were keeping them from him. In the fall he put into high gear his campaign to become bargaining agent, at the same time the BGMA officers continued their search for another union...
...four months later, the administration of Jewish Memorial recognized the newly formed Hospital Workers Association as the bargaining agent for the non-professional workers and had negotiated a contract with the union which granted most of the workers' demands. About 170 of the 180 non-professional workers had become card-carrying members of the union...
...minimum wage of $1.65, which represented a 35-cent raise for most of the workers. It also demanded time and a half for overtime, Blue Cross-Blue Shield coverage, creation of a procedure of dealing with worker grievances, seniority provisions, and recognition of the union as a collective bargaining agent...