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...this year's negotiations between the University and during hall workers represented by Local 26 of the International Hotel. Restaurant. Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union ranks as a genuine knock-down drag-out. Indeed there really haven't been any negotiations at all between Local 26 president Domenic M. Bozzotto and Harvard chief labour negotiator Edward W. Powers. As the workers contract approaches its June 19 expiration date, the two men have spent most of their time in a posturing pas de deux of charges and outright insults...
...difficulty of compromise in this hostile atmosphere is now where more evident than in the University's refusal to talk with Local 26's negotiating committee until Bozzotto gives up his demand that all bargaining be held in public. Bozzotto's demand is impractical and unusual--it may even legally be a failure to bargain in good faith. But in the interests of moving the negotiations off dead center the University should be willing to at least offer a proposal for limited public and press participation in the talks. With the help of a recently appointed federal mediator. Bozzotto...
...main event in the Harvard-Local 26 set-to. The real issue is the contract itself. And here the bargaining stances are so fat apart that even if negotiations started tomorrow a strike on June 19 or more probably next September when students return could not be ruled out. Bozzotto's union what a one dollar an hour across the board pay increase free medical insurance and a set of so-called "dignity demands" specific contract language ruling out elimination of employment positions. stricter adherence to seniority-based promotion and an end to alleged harassment of workers who take sick...
...Bozzotto also said closing negotiations would not keep the proceedings from being publicized. "The only difference is you'd hear it from out point of view," he predicted...
Domenic M. Bozzotto is the president of the Hotel, Restaurant. Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union. Local 26-A.F.I. C I O which represents Harvard's dining hall workers. The workers' contract expires on June...