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...Figueroa is not the first guard to take a complaint about his firing to MCAD. Former guard Rolando Diaz, who is Hispanic, filed a charge against Harvard in 1990 protesting his termination. The complaint was dismissed by the commission...
...Figueroa said last week that he believes his firing was ethnically-motivated. Dowling refused to comment on the issue, referring all questions to Associate Director of Labor Relations Carolyn R. Young '76, who also would not comment...
...Figueroa said last week he had filed the complaint against his union because it did not adequate represent him when he appealed the firing. He said in an interview in January that union business agent Francis E. Fanning had prevented him from taking his grievance to an independent arbitrator after he had exhausted other appeals...
...believe that Mr. Fanning was leaning on management's side, and he didn't stick up for union employees," Figueroa said in January...
Fanning said last week that Figueroa made the decision not to take the case to arbitration without being pressured by anyone in the union. Fanning said the union had handled Figueroa's grievance well, and refused to comment further...