Word: anti-union
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...letter sent to all 3700 clerical and technical workers late last week, Anne H. Taylor, who heads the University's anti-union efforts, called the election "unfair and invalid" and said HUCTW was not legally entitled to represent any Harvard employees...
...vote efforts. The union won the May 17th election by a 44-vote margin, although if it had received four fewer votes the election would have been litigated under a previous agreement with the University. The election capped a three-year organizing drive by HUCTW and a two-month anti-union campaign waged by the University...
THIS spring's unionization drive by Harvard's 4000 clerical and technical workers prompted another disappointing example of the administration's inability to act in accordance with its own ideals. President Bok had been a forceful supporter of unions as a law professor. But he made a change of heart when it affected his own workforce; the latest example was when he came out against this year's unionization effort. He marshalled an antiunion propaganda machine--writing two antiunion letters himself, sponsoring work-time meetings between administrators and workers, and issuing anti-union pamphlets packed with misleading graphs and partial...
Despite the anti-union campaign--and, in some cases, because of it--a majority of the support staff voted for the union. Yet, the administration jumped in to challenge the verdict. Even though the closeness of the vote may have justified this interference, Harvard's action casts further doubt on its attitude toward workers and their ability to decide their own fate. Such challenges are a common tactic for employers to delay a union's certification and contract negotiations; the University has already dragged out past union election bids for as long as two years--decreasing awareness of the issues...
...fact, correcting for inflation, real wage increases may have been growing. My point, though, is that Harvard's anti-union crusaders engaged in an obvious attempt to distort the figures they chose to use. I have worked as an economics journalist, have edited tests in statistics and social sciences, and have taught graphing in math classes; I can't recall ever having seen a chronologically backward graph before--and certainly not one which was also titled chronologically forward...