Word: cio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unionizing California's farm workers has been a major AFL-CIO project for three years. In September, 1965, they called a general strike in Delano, California, against 38 major growers. When the logistics of maintaining the strike proved too difficult, the AFL-CIO decided to confront the growers one at a time. Since that time, strikes and national boycotts have been carried out successfully against three now-infamous wine companies: Schenley, DiGiorgio, and Parelli-Minetti. Six others, including Gallo Wine, have singed union contracts after negotiation...
...Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission has ruled that the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO) is the "exclusive representative" of the B & G employees for purposes of collective bargaining with Harvard. A spokesman said last night that the University is ready to resume contract talks with the BCMC's negotiators as soon as they are prepared--probably some time this month...
Harvard suspended bargaining last fall when three union-the BCMC, the Buildings Services Employees International Local 54 (AFL-CIO), and an independent union--all claimed the right to represent the B&G workers...
...unions, the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO), has held that the BGMA voted unofficially last fall to affiliate with it. Two other unions, the Building Services Employes International and a group seeking to keep the name BGMA, have also claimed to represent the B&G workers. The University has insisted upon an election, supervised by the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board, in order to maintain its objectivity as the management party. Therefore Harvard has not recognized the BCMC as the official union...
...long ago, one of the BCMC's component unions, the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL-CIO) (which has a branch at Harvard) won a State Board election to represent some workers at the Worcester (Mass.) Hospital. The Hospital took the state labor relations board to court. In a decision which the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld, a Superior Court set aside the election on the grounds that the state board had no jurisdiction with a non-profit institution...