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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest unions at Harvard is the 200 member Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association (BGMA), which includes most of B&G's employees with the exception of janitors, maids, students, and unskilled help. The Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association is an independent union, unaffiliated with any outside group like the AFLCIO and it exists only at Harvard. Twenty-five years ago Harvard had only one labor union, the Harvard Employees Representative Association. The craftsmen -- carpenters, plumbers, painters, truck drivers, and electricians -- who believed they were inadequately represented by the allinclusive union, created the BGMA to bargain exclusively for their interests...
...bargaining for "units." Nonetheless, many BGMA members, who trace the founding of their union to a desire to preserve trade identity, were wary. Even if the unit bargaining were continued, they feared that Sullivan would do what he did at Radcliffe: bring the janitors, maids, porters and unskilled help under the same union roof with the craftsmen. For some this would mean just too much chance for error. "I don't want anyone to mistake me for a janitor," one BGMA member said. Another large trade union was apparently rejected by the BGMA officers for much the same reason. This...
...less important to the BGMA officers than the question of professional negotiators, but for some reason very important to the rank-and-file, was the question of how a new union might help the BGMA members if a strike ever became necessary. BGMA officers believe that the prospect of a strike at Harvard is extremely unlikely. They contend that the University would do virtually anything to avoid the embarrassment of a picket line marching around John Harvard's statue. But the problem of a strike came up frequently in encounters between the business agents of prospective unions and the BGMA...
...Reynolds, the No. 1 tobacco company, raised its 1966 earnings by 3.4% to a record $138 million-with a lot of help from sales of non-tobacco products (Hawaiian Punch juice, Chun King foods). Despite the health furor, there is plenty of fire in the company's smokes. Its Camels and Salems remained at the top of their markets, while Winston edged out American Tobacco's Pall Mall for the first time as the best-selling brand of any kind...
...reversed in a higher court (though Tennessee's antievolution law is still on the books). Dayton reverted to quietude; Darrow went on to further legal dramatics; Scopes himself became an oil-company geologist, retired in 1964 and finally found time to complete his engaging memoir with the help of freelance Journalist James Presley...