Word: huctw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, Bok is deciding whether Harvard will appeal, and HUCTW has launched another campaign to swing public opinion against the University, by accusing them of trying to delay a support staff union...
Labor experts at the time said, however, that the University was acting within the law, and that HUCTW was asking for Harvard to behave in an unprecedented way during an employee union election...
After the union won the right to represent the support staff in collective bargaining by a narrow 44-vote margin, the University challenged the election, claiming that HUCTW organizers were guilty of illegal electioneering on election...
...this battle of rhetoric, the University said that it had an obligation to the staff members who had not voted for the union--which, including those who did not vote at all, was more than 50 percent of the staff--to oppose the election if HUCTW organizers had intimidated employees to vote...
Thursday, more than 150 HUCTW supporters held a vigil in front of Bok's home to encourage a speedy decision. Student supporters of the union have pressed an Undergraduate Council commitee to author a resolution asking Bok not to appeal the decision. And the union has encouraged community members to write and call Bok, asking him to make a quick decision to go ahead with contract negotiations...