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...group of labor union shop stewards who work at Harvard Dining Services (HDS) are standing behind a fellow shop steward and HDS cook who was fired after charging that he was racially harassed...
...hometown of Vlasenica early in the war, killing her parents, she and her three young brothers roamed the forests in search of food and shelter. "We learned to survive from the old people who had lived through the Second World War," she explains. "They told us how to cook tree buds into a kind of bread. They were surprised by this war. They said the last war wasn't anything like this one. They said there was a lot more butchery in this...
...complaints were filed in December by Darryl Hicks, a former cook and labor union shop steward who was fired last week. Hicks, who worked in the College's largest dining hall for more than five years, had said he was harassed on the job and denied a promotion because he is Black and works as a steward...
According to Hicks, the manager, assistant manager and three supervisors who run the College's dining hall are all white. Hicks said he and other minorities were discriminated against when it came to getting promoted to "second cook," a supervisory position that is below the rank of the white supervisors...
Hicks also said overtime hours were unfairly distributed to favor Portuguese and white employees over Black and Puerto Rican employees. According to dated records of cook's overtime, Hicks and other Black and Puerto Rican employees were allowed to work less than 40 hours of over- time, while white and Portuguese employees worked between 70 and 180 hours of overtime each in the 15 months from September 1991 and December 1992. The union's contract says that overtime hours must be distributed fairly between employees...