Word: coops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown also defended the Coop's treatment of its employees, calling working conditions at the Coop as good or better than those of any store in Boston." He said that the Coop has not become unionized because workers are generally content with their pay, and he denied that security guards harassed union organizers last fall. "The union would have sued us if there had been any real harassment. Going to the NLRB was just a publicity gimic," Brown said...
...rebuttals to specific complaints have not solved the Coop's public relations woes. Most students seem to feel that they have little or no input in the Coop decision-making process. "I really get frustrated when I realize that I own part of the Coop yet no one even lets me know what goes on over there," a Harvard freshman complained recently...
...GROUP OF STUDENTS which seems most satisfied with the management of the Coop is the one most familiar with the Coop's operations: the student directors. Directors contacted by The Crimson were unanimous in their praise of Davis. Kenneth G. Bartels '73, a member of the board, called Davis "an outstanding individual" who has done an excellent job as general manager of the Coop...
Bartels said, however, that Coop directors have little control over management, since they rarely have adequate information to justify going against management recommendations. "It's rare that anyone on any board knows anything about what's going on. But at least a lot of diverse views are represented on this board," he said...
Close ties between the Coop and other business interests, however, have been objects of constant criticism. "Maybe if the Coop weren't so tied in with the rest of the business world it could become the socially constructive force many students wish it were," Steele said recently...