Word: bcmc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They felt and still feel certain that they could win a state election, but they also felt certain that a backlog of other cases meant that any state election would be months away. Furthermore, the BGMA and BCMC officers argued that the final resolution of the dispute was even further away since they felt sure that the BSEIU would appeal the results of the election...
This action, plus the clarity of the membership's intent when the BGMA voted on December 7, 1966, to affiliate with the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council should have convinced Harvard that the BSEIU had no real basis for its claims, the BGMA and the BCMC officers felt. The officers saw only skulduggery in Harvard's insistence that there should be a state-run election...
Since the vote to affiliate with the BCMC had been overwhelmingly clear, the Crafts Maintenance Council expected that Harvard would readily recognize it as the bargaining agent for the old BGMA membership, much as the University had recognized the LPIU as the printing office employees' bargainer...
...BGMA and BCMC people saw the situation in another light, however. To them, the claims of the Building Service Employees' Union that it represented the BGMA membership were obviously ridiculous. In the summer and fall of 1966 when the BGMA was considering affiliation with an AFL-CIO union, the BSEIU, which represents maintenance workers at many colleges and universities, was one of the ones they turned to. BSEIU officers even sent a supply of cards, which if signed by a majority of the BGMA membership, would have designated the BSEIU as the official bargaining agent for the membership...
...early December, the BCMC business agents met with the BGMA membership and explained their proposal. Two weeks later the BGMA membership met and voted to assimilate themselves into the Boston Crafts Manitenance Council and to have the Council perform all bargaining functions. The Council, therefore, expected the University to recognize it as the agent for the old BGMA membership. But, a short time before the election John W. Teele, director of Harvard personnel, had received a telegram from Eddy Sullivan declaring that the BSEIU was the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership because of the authorization cards. After negotiating...