Word: apprenticeships
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...each project through union hiring halls. Unions generally dictate crew sizes and working conditions. If a contractor refuses to schedule regular overtime, he is given the dregs of the labor pool. Unions have been able to create artificial labor shortages by restricting admission; most insist on a tortuous apprenticeship training of three to five years. Local unions usually do their own bargaining, city by city and craft by craft. When one powerful unit wins a fat increase, every other union leader in the area must try to leapfrog to a higher settlement-or risk losing face and perhaps...
...statement also reaffirmed the office's position that McNeil is not qualified for a promotion and 20-cent raise, saying that "The evidence showed that Mr. McNeil's 1969 experience was not the equivalent of one year's apprenticeship...
...told Coleman that McNeil's assignment to a "racist" union-taught remedial-math course was unfair, as other workers were going to schools closer to their homes, Colemanreplied that while it is licensed by the state, the school nearest McNeil's house is not recognized by Harvard's Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (JATC), and a transfer would have to be brought up before the JATC...
...could save a quarter of a million dollars by cutting out the apprenticeship program." Butler said. "Apprentices are less efficient than journeymen, and there are a number of people involved in administering the apprenticeship programs...
...members maintained that Harvard's apprenticeship program, as presently constructed, saves the University money it would otherwise spend on higher journeymen's wages. "We're here not just to win 20 cents for Charles McNeil-which we will," said Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy. "We're here to win a new helper's program...