Word: delft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person behind the unionization drive is Peter Van Delft, general organizer for the Distributive Workers. Van Delft started dealing with the Med School group in the fall, and is trying to organize clerical workers into the Distributive Workers' fledgling college division at the University of Chicago and several Ivy League schools. Van Delft is a veteran unionizer who is too crafty to reveal exactly the extent of his operations, but he has been spending much time lately flying around to various universities...
...secretary in the Physics Department went to one of Van Delft's meetings with the Med School workers this spring and first thought of doing something similar on this side of the river; she has since then conferred with other secretaries throughout the University about it, and says the drive is progressing well, if a little slowly...
...Harvard Medical Area organizing committee has affiliated with Van Delft's union, and with his assistance it will petition the National Labor Relations Board, probably sometime late this month, to attempt to obtain union certification...
...College side of the Charles, Van Delft has conferred with what one source characterized as "little pockets" of clerical and technical workers, also with the idea of unionizing...
...Delft, from his office at the District 65, says he also anticipates Harvard's opposition, and adds that he might insist that the Medical Area clerical and technical workers try for a University-wide local...