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Harvard apparently threatened last week to fire Alan Balsam, chief shop steward for Local 26, following an incident involving the serving of hamburgers. Balsam has long been active and outspoken in defending workers against the University's blatant anti-union policies. Thus it is not at all surprising that the University should seize the first available opportunity to remove him. The immediate pretext in this case was the hamburger dispute; the "hit man" was Buford Simpson, manager of the College Dining Halls...
Simpson's dealings with workers have never been marked with fairness. According to several workers and students who have seen Simpson in action, he likes his workers to be docile, cooperative--and white. Both black and white workers in the College Dining Hall--Balsam included--have recently criticized Simpson for his overt racism; Simpson, for his part, has remained silent on the issue. He also remained silent, in fact, through the recent Paul Glass case. Glass, himself black, was suspended by Simpson for what Glass characterized as "racial reasons...
...Balsam said that according to unemployment law, workers can collect unemployment compensation if the jobs offered to them for the summer differ "substantially" in wages or hours from their regular jobs...
...Balsam called the change in policy "one of the lowest things they [University officials] have ever done...
...Balsam said that summer employment will be the "number one burning issue" when discussions about the employees' contract, which expires on June 19, begin...