Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...progressive, just realistic," Hiattsays. "We've been in the child care business for18 years now." At Stride Rite, unions have not hadto bargain for child care because of Hiatt'sinitiatives. "We've never been approached by aunion [about child care]," Hiatt says. "It's neverbeen a union issue. It's been a management issue...
...Harvard, and most other universities,child care has lagged behind the needs of theemployees--and, inevitably, with unionizationdrives have come demands for improved facilities...
Because of its 83 percent female workforce, thesupport staff union at Harvard has organized, andis now negotiating, around such "family issues" asaffordable day care. In the current negotiations,the union has pressed for a broad platform ofchanges, going from large increases in child careto paid parental leave and scholarship money forday care...
...according to labor experts, universitiessuch as Harvard are the ideal site at which tonegotiate new and progressive relationshipsbetween management and labor on the child carefront...
...throughout society the issue of child carehas been a dominant one in the 1980s. As familylife and professional responsibilities have becomeinextricably linked in recent years, families nolonger have the luxury of having one parent stayhome to care for the children while the other oneworks...