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Last week's labor developments at Harvard were both encouraging and somewhat dismaying. Security guards, parking monitors and museum attendants voted to establish a new union, after their contract with their old union, Local 254 expired on November 15. Local 254 has recently been accused of representing workers in bad faith and selling its employees short for the University's benefit. However, while we believe that the new union may be able to better represent these Harvard workers, we are concerned about internal tension in the new union, which appears to be split along occupational lines. The security guards seem...
Local 254 became embroiled in controversy over a contract which its management negotiated between custodial workers and the University. This new contract instituted a 20-month wage freeze, cut vacation time and slashed pay for sick time. It also reduced pay scales for new workers. Many of Local 254's custodial workers were upset about both the terms of the new contract and the way it was ratified. They were given less than an hour to read a summary of the new contract before they were forced to vote on it. This discontent led some of the custodial workers...
...from an offensive rebound. That is why all of the above play for Jerry Reinsdorf, a 60-year-old C.P.A. and attorney who owns the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox. And that is why Reinsdorf signed offensive-rebound Albert Belle last week to a five-year, $52.5 million contract that made the troubled slugger the highest-paid baseball player in history--and the owner the top vote getter in Hypocrite of the Year balloting...
With a new contract soon to be negotiated, some guards were afraid Local 254 would be no more successful than it had been with the custodial workers, said David H. Guthrie, chief of security for Harvard Yard Operations...
Despite their differences, Bennet was confident that all the guards could work together to negotiate a new contract...