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...Coop's management hire a professional union-busting consultant to direct its campaign to persuade workers to vote against the union...
...vote no doubt stands as a sincere indication of the workers' predominant desire to keep the union out of the workplace and their wish to continue the same sort of employment relations that currently exist at the Coop...
...Coop officials and employees sympathetic to the store's management responded by saying that the vote was no great victory, but an opportunity for employees to express their feelings on a particular issue. Although the employees have answered the union question, many questions about the Coop still remain...
...best with the little touches that provide what Poe called the potent magic of verisimilitude (each character in this bookish book continually quotes and attributes in mid-sentence). Examples of the Cross eye: a sophisticated senior's statement to a mystified outsider. "Oh, nobody uses money at the Coop": or an accurate assessment of Lamont (squeaky floors) vs. Hilles (empty except during reading period) libraries: or the Independent's paranoia about The Crimson: or the fact that no one shovels snow off Cambridge sidewalks. All of these add up to a remarkably persuasive and amusing portrait of life in these...
Base said that although the slate would tend to sympathize with union issues, if elected its representatives on the Coop's board of 23 directors would not be a rubber stamp for a union...