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...think we won a lot of significant gains," Alan Balsam, chief shop steward for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union, said yesterday. "Some people felt the offer was not really what we were looking for, but I think that our differences are not that great to merit further action...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and Harvard's chief labor negotiator, yesterday declined to comment on the status of the contract negotiations or the proposal, except to say that "if he [Balsam] says it's worked out, I wouldn't disagree with his characterization...
According to Balsam, the union rank and file met last Tuesday to discuss the final Harvard proposal, and will reconvene on September 29 to hold a ratification vote on the pact...
Harvard's outrageous suspension of shop stewards Sylvia gallagher, Alan Balsam and John Schaffer represents an escalation of its continuing assault on the campus labor movement. In an episode reminiscent of the Sherman Holcombe cauliflower controversy, the Harvard administration has again seized on a minor dispute--this time the question of where on the plate Alan Balsam should put hamburgers--as a pretext for purging the kitchen workers of their leaders and intimidating the rest of the local's membership. In addition to the suspensions, Harvard has docked all the workers who walked out in solidarity with Balsam two hours...
...kitchen workers' contract will expire on June 30, and Harvard will soon force many workers to survive on part-time wages over the summer. Thus, Harvard's attack on Gallagher, Balsam and Schaffer makes their strategy clear: crush all signs of militancy before the further aggravations of an insulting contract offer and a drastic reduction in income blow them into strike proportions, while purging the local of its leadership before contract negotations begin. As students depart for the summer, Harvard's anti-labor fist is poised for a decisive blow, and timed to provoke a minimum of public outcry...