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Today's suspension of Alan Balsam, Sylvia Gallagher, and John Shaffer is one more example of the antidemocratic nature of Harvard management. When kitchen workers walk out in protest against a threat to fire their shop steward, Harvard suspends three union leaders, threatens the rest; and says that it is being generous not to fire everybody. Harvard acts like a dictator, as if it thinks it owns its workers. These anti-democratic practices must be stopped. Harvard should let Alan, Sylvia, and John go back to work, with full pay, and erase the suspensions from their records...
More than 250 students in Winthrop House have signed a petition drafted by House members supporting Alan Balsam, chief shop steward of the dining hall workers' union, and criticizing the "methods employed by management in threatening Balsam" in the wake of a dining hall workers walkout last Monday...
...Winthrop House Committee which originally drafted a request several weeks ago that the House dining hall alter its hamburger-serving policy. Balsam's compliance with the student request reportedly got him in trouble with Buford Simpson, manager of the College Dining Hall, and, according to several witnesses, resulted in a threat by Simpson to fire Balsam...
...alleged threat, in turn, provoked the lunch-hour "emergency union meeting" that Balsam called last Monday...
...petition expresses the Winthrop House students' "sympathy with the kitchen workers and their chief shop steward" and calls the alleged threat to fire Balsam "an attempt to intimidate Alan and the union...