Word: anti-union
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Last year, as part of a student, prounion delegation, I met with Bok in his office in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to end the administration's anti-union campaign. We knew we were meeting with one of the Big Boys of the Corporate World, so we tried to be polite and respectable. I removed my earring and even wore a jacket and tie. We sat up straight, avoided rhetoric, and kept our feet off the coffee table...
During the meeting, we presented Bok with a petition signed by over 3000 students urging the University to remain neutral during the union election. We told Bok that we understood the administration was within its legal rights to wage an anti-union campaign; we were asking the administration to hold itself to a higher standard. He quickly and unapologetically confirmed what we had feared--that despite what we are taught, moral pressure has no place in the grown-up world of university politics...
...made for the sake of equal time; if we were to run an ad for the union, there would be no cries for a response from Eastern. In fact, we have run ads for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, but it was never suggested that we give the University equal space to present its side. The motion was made simply because the large majority of Crimson editors support the union's efforts, and they opposed the anti-union message that they felt was underlying Eastern's low fares...
Frank Lorenzo is not an innovative capitalist crusader. He is a violently anti-union, cynical man who sees the world through green-colored glasses. He wants your $29 to break the backs of 8500 machinists, to eliminate their jobs. He'll scratch your back if you scratch his. Don't touch...
...referring to Frank Lorenzo, chairman of Eastern's parent Texas Air Corp., whose anti-union reputation has galvanized Eastern's union employees...