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Actually, the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council isn't a union at all but is a council of business agents for the Boston locals of the AFL-CIO affiliated trade unions. Under the BCMC plan for Harvard, the BGMA would be disbanded and each former member would join the union appropriate...
...silence their demands. Its not like the old days when "no one complained because getting a job at Harvard was like being elected to the U.S. Senate." to his trade. When it came time for negotiations, not one, but five, business agents would meet with Harvard. What made the BCMC plan especially attractive was the provision that some members of the old BGMA would be named to the bargaining committee and that the business agents would not sign the contracts until they had been approved specifically by the membership working at Harvard...
...craftsmen at B & G will now join a union made up of men solely in their own trade, but the business agents of the five BCMC unions will bargain as one rather than as five committees with Harvard. Don Berry, secretary of the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council, which will be the bargaining committee, said the BCMC would not be willing to sign an agreement with the University for any one of the craft units until all of them had "received favorable settlements...
...BCMC officials expect the University to recognize them within a few days as the official bargaining agent for all employees once covered by the BGMA...