Word: huctw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University made an extremely unwise move in deciding to drop its appeal against the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). President Bok now appears foolish after investing Harvard's reputation and moral weight against unionizing Harvard's more than 3500 pink-collar workers...
...long last, Harvard's 3400 support staff will have a union. The success of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) will empower these employees from now on--in contract negotiations, workplace relations and morale...
With its well-touted slogan "It's not anti-Harvard to be pro-union," HUCTW was also a pioneer campaign for this strategy. The union organizers did not try to convince workers that Harvard was a bad employer, instead they suggested that the University would be a better employer if its workers had a voice...
...HUCTW organized the support staff using 18 full-time organizers, most of whom had been University employees, who spent each day moving around campus, talking to support staff. They distributed almost no printed literature, but relied instead on the one-on-one meetings to recruit supporters...
Somers said that other university support staff may look to HUCTW as a model, just as organizers here used the Yale support staff union as an example of a successful campaign. Experts said HUCTW's victory will reinforce the example set by Yale...