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Under the agreement, an apprenticeship and training program will be set up with automatic promotions every six months leading to the journeyman position. The apprentices will be paid $3.05 per hour, retroactive to December 8, 1969. Helpers are presently paid...
Harvard agrees with the black students that the category of painter's helper should be abolished. "The students had asked that all helpers be reclassified as painters, but the Administration said that not all would be automatically promoted. A new apprenticeship program will be open to those former helpers who wish to join. The Administration will ask the Contractors Association of Boston (3 representative for black contractors) to appoint a three-man committee to review the qualifications of present painter's helpers and recommend changes in their status...
Harvard will establish an apprenticeship training program, and is presently negotiating with the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission to set one up. The black students had asked for such a program to be established immediately. Harvard agreed with the students that the painters and helpers entering the program would not have their...
...immediate establishment of an apprenticeship-training program, which painters could enter without receiving a cut in pay. Painters completing theprogram would receive pay comparable to that received by outside contracted painters...
DUNLOP had originally negotiated a national settlement (the so-called "Model Cities agreement") to increase the number of black workers in the construction unions. The locals, however, "protected" union membership with a rigorous seven-year apprenticeship program. The apprenticeship program, blacks charged, discriminated against them and would certainly have delayed their entry into the unions. In Pittsburgh, these charges increased racial tensions and led to a workers' riot. In Boston, Dunlop introduced the concept of "trainee status" as a second route for blacks into the unions. The trainee program provided a form of special tutoring to prepare blacks...