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Especially galling to the BGMA membership was Harvard's recognition of the LPIU as the bargaining agent for the 34 Printing Office employees. They did not see any difference between their move to affiliate with the BCMC and the printing employees' affiliation with the LPIU. As negotiations between the University and the LPIU began to falter, however, many BGMA members grew more convinced that Harvard, underneath it all, was really antiunion...
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board, in late April, conducted three days of public hearings on the BGMA-BSEIU-BCMC-Harvard dispute...
...most BGMA people this meant only that Harvard had given forewarning of its intention to renege if the results of the election were not pleasing to the University. To their allies, the BCMC officers, Harvard's statement was a clear indication that the University intended to use legal means to destroy the effectiveness of an election--an election which the BCMC said it was sure it would...
...long ago, one of the BCMC's component unions, the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL-CIO) (which has a branch at Harvard) won a State Board election to represent some workers at the Worcester (Mass.) Hospital. The Hospital took the state labor relations board to court. In a decision which the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld, a Superior Court set aside the election on the grounds that the state board had no jurisdiction with a non-profit institution...
...state labor relations board expects to draw up a ballot for the Harvard case soon (besides the BSEIU and the BGMA-BCMC, a small group of dissident BGMA members seeking to remain independent has asked to be placed on the ballot as the Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association) and conduct an election by mid-July. But Donn Berry, secretary-treasurer of the BCMC, says his group might not participate unless "We get a written guarantee from Harvard that the election results are final and binding...