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Members also hoped that Mayor Barbara S. Ackermann (then Cambridge City Councilwoman), who had contacted Cronin and urged him to recognize HSWOC, would become permanent members of the new union...
...HSWOC waitresses optimistically entered negotiations with Cronin demanding...
However, six weeks of fruitless contract negotiations between HSWOC and Cronin ended in a strike...
...negotiations weren't getting any of us anywhere," Patricia Welch, a waitress employed by Cronin and one of the founders of HSWOC, said. She said that after ten meetings, Cronin had agreed to sign only one minor detail of the 24-article contract proposed by the union. "Mr. Cronin never drew up a list of counter proposals as he had promised to do," she added...
Cronin said he was "totally surprised" by the strike. "I thought that we were making lots of progress in the negotiations," he said. Within the next week, Cronin fired the eight HSWOC-member striking waitresses, and obtained a restraining order forbidding them from picketing...