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...Hovey is a major supplier of dairy products of Harvard Food Services. Unfortunately, the company's workers have been on strike since February 22, protesting Hovey's refusal to recognize the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union as their bargaining agent...
...company has been engaged in questionable practices; a number of employees have been terminated and others have lost benefits in their effort to unionize the company. It should be noted that two-thirds of Hovey's workers have signed with Local $92 of the Union, and that specific complaints have been made to the National Labor Relations Board...
Because there are other alternative sources for Hovey's products, the University should make it a policy to stop doing business with the company for the duration of the strike. Nicholas Horton '86 Member, United Food and Commercial Workers Local...
...Hovey has unfairly fired four pro-union workers, threatened others with the loss of their benefits, and hired a union-busting law firm to extend the legal battle, according to Arthur Koustis, labor organizer for Local 592 of the United Food & Commercial Workers...
Mead called Koustis's charges "a distortion" and said Hovey had acted fully within its legal rights throughout the strike...