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If a shop is set up at Harvard. Burns added, non-union employees will have to pay an agency fee equivalent to union dues.
"Last semester, a number of black women said they were paying dues to the Radcliffe Union of Students(RUS) and not getting anything out of it except for an occasional black speaker." Hanson said. "We felt it was time to get ourselves together."
The shift in the Harvard Cooks' attitude first became apparent in December, when Sherman L. Holcombe, the newly-elected shop steward at Radcliffe's dining halls, submitted a list of grievances about Harvard and Stefani to the Personnel Office. Holcombe, a 45-year-old former truck driver, complained that Harvard...
"I've united my dining halls," he says. "They don't like people wearing union buttons. They don't mind people paying dues, but when they start acting like they're in the union they don't like it."
But during the depression the union fell apart; nobody but Stefani paid dues and management kept cutting wages. He left Local 186 for a few years to join Local 34, but in 1937 he decided to revitalize 186. He called a meeting: nobody came. He called a second meeting and...