Word: anti-union
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Multiple speakers accused the University of being greedy—saying it is sitting on a “pot of gold”—and alleged it has an anti-union agenda. HUCTW representative Geoff Carens mentioned an alleged human resources planning document that he said encourages harassment of employees with the goal of eliminating their jobs...
...what they get are policies that are still well right of center, just not as crazy. The tribunals, not law courts, are still there to try, and convict, the accused. And even after Democratic scrutiny, Tom Ridge’s new homeland security fiefdom is still decidedly anti-union...
...superior bargaining power, if left unchecked, could easily push workers’ wages back down to unacceptable levels. In order to “ensure that a threatened bargaining impasse is not used to lower the real value of the parity wage,” HCECP included an anti-union busting clause that “the parity wage will be adjusted upward annually by the rate of increase of the U.S. consumer price index” if the University refuses to negotiate a contract with unions. Although it is not the same as a living wage provision?...
...Nearly 1,000 people marched through the Yard supporting the principles that workers should have a voice in our community, that they should be paid enough to meet the basic costs of living and that they should be given equal treatment for equal work. Poverty wages, anti-union practices and outsourcing at Harvard must be ended not only to help workers, but also because they violate these important principles...
...sign it. Conservatives hate it. McCain is working the issue on TV and behind the scenes; he says he already has the 60 votes he needs to get it out of the Senate. Bush allies will try to insert a so-called paycheck-protection provision into the bill, an anti-union poison pill that would strip it of needed Democratic support. But if they fail and it lands on Bush's desk, he must either sign it--detonating his right wing--or veto it, a disastrous way to introduce himself to Americans...