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...first meeting yesterday afternoon of the ten-member "implementation committee" -set up during the Organization of Black Unity (OBU) seizure of University Hall last week to discuss OBU demands-left OBU spokesmen optimistic about a satisfactory resolution of the painter's helper demand...
Harvard agrees with the black students that the category of painter's helper should be abolished. "The students had asked that all helpers be reclassified as painters, but the Administration said that not all would be automatically promoted. A new apprenticeship program will be open to those former helpers who wish to join. The Administration will ask the Contractors Association of Boston (3 representative for black contractors) to appoint a three-man committee to review the qualifications of present painter's helpers and recommend changes in their status...
...response to the students' demand that a black man be promoted to crew chief, Harvard has appointed a black helper to the post of assistant foreman in Buildings and Grounds. No black helpers are eligible for promotion by the seniority system on which Harvard presently works...
...Harvard pays the helpers $2.86 an hour, while the journeymen who do the same work receive $3.72. Not that Harvard pays the full painters what it should. Journeymen painters in the Boston area working under a union contract receive $5.90 an hour ($6.90 come January). Larry Hodston, the shop steward of the Harvard painters, believes that this is the reason that Harvard originally started the "helper-3rd class" category which was not provided in the union contract signed two years ago. "Harvard couldn't even get a nibble from journeymen painters, even after an advertisement in a Boston newspaper." said...
...University says that the helpers have a regular grievance procedure whereby they can protest if they feel that they have enough experience to be journeymen. As one helper said recently, "a white painter filed two grievances, and ever since he's been given shit work and gets needled constantly." A white painter who has painted for Harvard for more than fifteen years said, "If you file a grievance, it'll hurt you later. Everyone knows this." Painters' helpers who have asked for promotion because of their experience have been told they have a "bad attitude" toward their work and have...