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Eleven students from Harvard and MIT seeking nomination for election to the Harvard Cooperative Society's board of directors as members of an informal slate sympathetic to the store's union organization effort will wrap up their signature drive today. Petitions for the students' nominations are due at the Coop this afternoon...
...YOUNGER EMPLOYEES come and go, the store's senior workers stay on at their assigned tasks, most of them resigned to their low wages and dim prospects for advancement by the poor chances of finding jobs elsewhere in the area's strickened job market. Meanwhile, the Coop goes on selling its books and clothes, pens, pencils and vast assortment of Harvard paraphernalia. But a storm of dissent recently blew through this garden of profitability, when local 1445 of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) reported that more than half of the employees at the Coop's six branches...
...firm selling commencement garments and resisting unionization indicates. The marginal company's sharp decline in sales forced it to shut down, leaving many to wonder what good the union organizers and student activism did for the plant's employees. But the facts of the union effort at the Coop are clear--wages and benefits are poor, and the company's profits are enormous. A union shop will not endanger the Coop's financial stability, and the measures that a union could take to improve working conditions at the Coop seem clear enough. Higher wages and the establishment of a systematic...
...OPPOSITION of the Coop management to the organization attempt is hardly surprising, for the advent of a union would represent a dramatic shift in control over the forces that affect the workplace. Nevertheless, its hard-core campaign to prevent unionization is not less than appalling. Reports indicate that the Coop has hired a union-busting consultant, perhaps paying him as much as $1000 a day for his expertise in intimidating workers. The store's front office has released a barrage of anti-union propaganda, all designed to prey on the fears and latent conservatism of the workers. A series...
...decision whether to unionize is ultimately up to the workers themselves. A majority of the more than 500 employees at the Coop's six branches and its warehouse must vote affirmatively in a March 26 election, before local 1445 can gain the authority to represent the workers in contract negotiations. If the union is granted this right, employees still have the option to turn down any contract that they perceive as unfavorable to their interests. Union organizers and activist workers point out that the road to unionization is a triumph of the democratic process. The local's present effort involves...