Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement endorsed the demands of students and condemned the University's policy of "relegating blacks to the classification of 'painter's helper' in which they earn less money than 'painters' for doing the same work." They recommended that "all 'painter's helpers' be promoted immediately to 'painters 'and that 20 percent black and other minority group workers be hired at all levels at Harvard construction sites" -one of OBU's demands...
...They are definitely going to be graded up," one union member said yesterday. He said that any helper who thinks that he should be promoted could file a grievance with his shop steward, who would bring it up before the committee...
...committee would check all references which the helper submitted, he said, adding that previously some references were ignored...
Raftery called the present helper category "an inequitable arrangement keeping people in a kind of subservient position without any hope of moving forward...
...tentative agreement to eliminate the helper category and promote all present helpers to apprentices with a pay raise of 10 cents was reached last Friday between Harvard and the representatives of the five unions in the Maintenance and Engineering Department, according to a union spokesman...