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Solidarity is exactly the image he is trying to forge. Combining social issues with union issues, Bozzotto attempted, with some success, to form an alliance with students, an alliance he hopes will exert more force on a stubborn Harvard management than unionism alone. His foray into the divestment world and into the media spotlight were calculated manuevers to gain the support of student and faculty activists, observers speculate. Thus, Bozzotto has pushed the union movement, with mixed success from an isolated facet of the Harvard experience into mainstream anti-Harvard administration...
...Bozzotto began his labor career as a waterboy in a Boston hotel at age 13. He and his buddies stole ice cream from hotel freezers at night to give them energy to wash dishes. Now, 35 years later, Bozzotto runs the hotel and restaurant workers union. But he still eats ice cream to give him energy: three banana splits every...
Since his election in 1981, Bozzotto has transformed the relatively passive Local 26--which represents all of Harvard's dining hall workers, as well as the Faculty Club cooks and waitresses--into an active entity, aware of their rights as members of the community, says Eugene Bruskin, who heads the Boston-based Massachusetts Labor Support Project...
Throughout this year and his term as Local 26 president, job security has been the central issue facing labor at Harvard, says Bozzotto. In order to run its eating establishments more efficiently, Harvard has in the past two years contracted out both the Faculty Club and Kresge Hall, the Business School dining hall. The change in management has threatened jobs in both places, and the union will attempt to revise the contract so as to assure jobs and the continuation of Harvard benefits to workers after a change in management...
Marriott Hotels currently manages the Business School dining hall. Bozzotto wants to negotiate a contract containing a grandfather clause guaranteeing continued Harvard benefits for long-term workers...