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...demonstration received more attention than any other this year. But it was not organized by the traditional opponents of Harvard's South Africa investments policy; the march and sit-in were orchestrated by Domenic M. Bozzotto, the president of the Boston-based union responsible for Harvard's dining hall workers...
That day and into the night, Bozzotto pranced around the Holyoke Center courtyard in his Local 26 jacket as if he were Lenin himself. He appeared on television screens and in newspapers across the Boston area, bashing Harvard and Shell Oil for their connections to South Africa. His unconventional methods surprised some in the Harvard community, angered others and bewildered most...
...Bozzotto has been around for about five years, but this year marked one of his most visible. He was behind much of the upheaval at the Faculty Club, where his workers protested against new outside managers and what they called unfair overtime practices. Threatening strikes and causing several scenes inside the building itself during the school year, Bozzotto rocked the traditionally sophisticated and removed air of the club with real-world concerns...
During one incident earlier this spring, one of Bozzotto's union activists refused to leave the club's kitchen until Harvard officials agreed to negotiate on a labor dispute. The workers this union leader represents were so incited that one employee described the Faculty Club as utterly repressive. "It's like Poland. It's just hell. It's like Solidarity...
...Bozzotto said he feared that the current union gains would be lost. "[Powers] will come to the negotiating table with some scheme to water that down...