Word: anti-union
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...controversial decision last month, Harvard filled the vacancy left by Kovach by naming former Detriot News editor Robert H. Giles the foundation's new curator. It was a questionable appointment, preceded by several letters of protest. Giles achieved notoriety among some reporters for his anti-union position during a bitter 1995 strike at the Detroit News. Former Detroit News reporters also contend that, under Giles, the paper published biased and slanted accounts of the strike. Based on independent reviews of the Detroit News' coverage, these accusations seem at least partially valid...
Some of his former employees at the News--including journalists Allan Lengel, Robert Ourlian, Kathleen Desmet and several others--have contacted the University to express their opposition to Giles' candidacy because of his anti-union stance in the Detriot strike and his ties to Gannett, a newspaper publishing group that they accuse of nearly ruining the News...
...University fought bitterly against theunion's formation in 1988, spending over $500,000on an anti-union campaign. Harvard blanketed thecampus with leaflets suggesting that unionizingwould bring in outsiders who would impose theiragendas on Harvard workers...
Those affiliated with Phillips Brooks House say that the University has had an anti-union perspective in their attempts over the last three years to gain control over the direction of public service at Harvard...
Saying the residency requirement was "anti-woman, anti-union, anti-veteran and fiscally irresponsible," Triantafillou said the regulation would discourage the city from hiring minority and better qualified candidates when a city resident was applying for the position...