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...less successful. Over the past several years. Harvard has gradually given all but two of its graduate dining halls to catering companies. But in January, when Harvard tried to contract out the School of Public Health (SPH) food services, union pressure forced the University to back down, said Dominic Bozzotto, who heads the food workers' union here. International Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees and Bartenders' Union Local...
...Bozzotto is probably the most outspoken opponent of contracting out of all local union leaders, and has been the most successful in resisting what some see as an all consuming trend. The food service workers have the only contract which declares that no workers can be laid off or suffer a reduction of hours as a result of Harvard's contracting...
...Bozzotto added that in the past, the union negotiating committee has supported open talks. "There is nothing sacred or mystical about negotiations and anyone who wants to observe should be allowed to," But Powers said that the Federal mediator who set the negotiating teams. Gerard M. Gomez had confirmed to him that the agreement reached at the meeting called for private negotiating sessions...
Both Powers and Bozzotto said yesterday that the mediator had been helpful in drawing up conditions to start the talks. They explained that Gomez had proposed the idea of separate caucus rooms for the groups...
...Powers and I were getting nowhere before Gomez intervened, Bozzotto said. Although Bozzotto had originally refused to meet with a mediator he agreed last month to use an outside arbitrator to help draw up negotiation terms but not the contract itself he said...