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...Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission has ruled that the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO) is the "exclusive representative" of the B & G employees for purposes of collective bargaining with Harvard. A spokesman said last night that the University is ready to resume contract talks with the BCMC's negotiators as soon as they are prepared--probably some time this month...
Harvard suspended bargaining last fall when three union-the BCMC, the Buildings Services Employees International Local 54 (AFL-CIO), and an independent union--all claimed the right to represent the B&G workers...
...International and a group seeking to keep the name BGMA, have also claimed to represent the B&G workers. The University has insisted upon an election, supervised by the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board, in order to maintain its objectivity as the management party. Therefore Harvard has not recognized the BCMC as the official union...
...BCMC called a commencement-time strike, in which many tradesmen participated, to show that it did in fact represent BGMA workers. The strike ended when Harvard agreed to attend a conciliation conference. At the conference, the three contesting unions and the University agreed to the state-run election...
...printers' strike ended early this week with a settlement both sides praised. But as of yesterday, the BGMA men were still out trying to force the University into recognizing the BCMC as their bargaining agent. Whether the strikers, who have said they will on "two hours notice" participate in an election, will participate in the state one without a legal guarantee from Harvard remains to be seen