Word: drives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided to allow only those workers who had signed union cards before last May's election to choose representatives to attend the first meetings with the University. This move was an outright betrayal of the ideology on which the union campaigned and an insult to those who supported the drive for representation...
...expect it to be democratic?" asked the University administrator who oversees relations with labor, Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott. Yes, we did, and with good reason. The union premised its entire organizing drive on inclusion--meeting one-on-one with workers and urging all staff to voice their concerns. Union organizers said the main goal of having a union at Harvard was not to raise worker salaries or boost worker benefits, but to give workers a powerful voice in decision-making...
...half of the union's decision makes absolute sense. But there still is one lingering question: Why limit eligiblity for the transition team vote to those members who signed union cards before the May 17 election? The union says it did so because there has not been an organizing drive--with cards distributed to workers--since then. Yet, some have signed cards since then...
...Ithacans, whose presence was testimony to their devotion (it's at least a six hour drive from the Cornell campus to Cambridge) were a boisterous, rowdy group...
Panda senior Georgie Stanley netted the lone Brown goal with less than two minutes left in the game. The blue-line drive came off a face off deep in Harvard...