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Harvard's Buildings and Grounds craftsmen may have started a trend last night by voting to dissolve their small independent union and join a group of AFL-CIO unions...
...craftsmen at B & G will now join a union made up of men solely in their own trade, but the business agents of the five BCMC unions will bargain as one rather than as five committees with Harvard. Don Berry, secretary of the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council, which will be the bargaining committee, said the BCMC would not be willing to sign an agreement with the University for any one of the craft units until all of them had "received favorable settlements...
...neighbors on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is known as "St. John the Unfinished." Hampered by a shortage of funds, materials and skilled craftsmen, construction of the world's second largest church* has proceeded at a medieval pace. After three-fourths of a century, the building is only two-thirds complete; the skeletal scaffolding on the incomplete portal towers has stayed in place for 25 years simply because it would cost too much ($70,000 nowadays) to take it down...
...million craftsmen compared to a target of 1.63 million...
TABLE 3 Median Education of Occupation Groups, 1965 and 1985 Estimated White 1965 Nonwhite 1985 Total Occupation Group (yrs.) (yrs.) (yrs.) White-collar workers Professional & technical workers 16.3 16.5 16.3 Managers, officials & proprietors 12.6 11.8 12.6 Clerical 12.5 12.6 12.5 Sales 12.5 12.3 12.5 Blue-collar workers Craftsmen & foremen 11.8 10.4 12.5 Operatives 10.7 10.2 12.0 Laborers, excluding farm & mine 9.9 8.6 11.0 Service workers Private household 8.9 8.9 10.0 Other 11.6 10.4 12.0 Farm workers Farmers & farm managers 8.9 5.9 8.8 Laborers & foremen...