Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They have also tried what Raudenbush calls sweet-talking. They call a worker in and say, "We like you and have a lot of hope for your advancement. But we don't think you should get involved in this union." "This tack breaks down when the workers start talking and realize everyone's been promised advancement, Raudenbush said...
...Federation's genesis was a meeting of eight teaching fellows in Phillips Brooks House last Nov. 17. The group drew up a short list of grievances and decided to call an open meeting in a month's time...
...organized a steering committee with an eye toward the possible formation of a union, perhaps affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. But when the steering committee met Dec. 18, some of the drawbacks of unionism had already become clear. The first was what one member of the group called "the spectre of Berkeley," where only a few days before a militant union of teaching fellows had played a major role in leading the much-criticized student demonstrators. The Harvard group knew there was no comparable discontent in Cambridge, and they feared that setting up a union with the power...
Still interested in testing the ground, the steering committee decided to call meetings in each department to elect representatives for a new committee and to gauge just what kind of support TF's would give to an organization. The group also wanted to look into the possibility of having the organization designated as the official bargaining agent for Harvard's teaching fellows--the content of unionism without necessarily the form...
...moderate and flexible Harvard administration, at least until the possibilities for compromise had been exhausted. The path seemed clear: create a loose, reasonable sort of association, the kind that the maximum number of TF's would feel comfortable supporting. The steering committee therefore decided that the new organization should call itself, in conveniently ambiguous terms, a "federation...