Word: elfenbein
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...hindsight, Elfenbein wonders about the ramifications of allowing union representatives to negotiate for them...
...very frustrating to a lot of us,” Elfenbein says. “[The unions] wanted a labor victory…If we had made the administration deal with us, and been our own advocates, would we have gotten more, or would we have been starved out? Who knows...
...union claims to have done its best...but the manner in which [the negotiation] was structured was in many ways problematic,” Elfenbein says. “Some individual workers did have power, but the way it worked is not a model of worker democracy and fair representation...
...Elfenbein cites problems with translation equipment at the negotiations for Spanish and Portugese-speaking workers...
...There are ways to cross the language barrier when the opinion of non-English speaking people is seen as important,” Elfenbein says...