Word: cio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly every one of Harvard's thousands of non-professional employees belongs to a union. Some belong to small independent unions like the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association or the Harvard Police Association, others to large affiliated groups like the International Chefs and Pastry Cooks' Union (AFL-CIO) or the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL-CIO). In recent years the trend has been towards affiliaiton with large AFL-CIO unions because of their highly qualified business agents and bargainers. The small independent unions choose their bargaining committees from within their own membership and these men have grown to feel...
...idea of affiliation with unions that have professional business agents. A number of employees at the printing office, mostly press-cameramen, strippers, platemakers, and pressmen, decided to break away from the H.U. Employees Representative Association. In December they became affiliated with the International Lithographers and Photoengravers' Union (AFL-CIO), a union famed for its consistently good (as far as the workers are concerned) contracts...
Also in December, the members of the Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association, a union that represents the 265 B&G employees who are skilled tradesmen or craftsmen, voted to affiliate with a group known as the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council AFL-CIO). The Crafts Maintenance Council is not a union itself but rather a committee of craft union business agents. Under the Crafts Maintenance Council plan, the members of the BGMA would join the unions appropriate to their trades, and the committee of business agents from these unions would bargain at Harvard...
...Harvard did not and would not recognize the Crafts Maintenance Council as the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership. The University pointed out that another union, the Building Services Employees International (AFL-CIO) claimed that it represented the BMGA membership and that the BSEIU had filed petitions with the Massachusetts State Labor Relations Board making such claims. The University said that as an employer it would violate national labor policy by arbitrarily choosing one of the contesting unions as the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership. It therefore counseled patience and said that it would let a state labor board...
...BGMA and BCMC people saw the situation in another light, however. To them, the claims of the Building Service Employees' Union that it represented the BGMA membership were obviously ridiculous. In the summer and fall of 1966 when the BGMA was considering affiliation with an AFL-CIO union, the BSEIU, which represents maintenance workers at many colleges and universities, was one of the ones they turned to. BSEIU officers even sent a supply of cards, which if signed by a majority of the BGMA membership, would have designated the BSEIU as the official bargaining agent for the membership...