Word: huctw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard is not terrible. It's not a great employer, a benevolent, generous employer. It's right down the middle. It's the same as all other employers who hire predominantly women," said Rondeau. She did criticize the University, however, for its anti-union stance throughout HUCTW's campaign last spring...
Rondeau, the director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), which for the past 17 years has been organizing Harvard's support staff around women's issues such as pay equity and child care, centered her discussion on the problems of forming a primarily female union...
Last spring, after HUCTW won a support staff election by a narrow 44-vote margin, the University contested the vote, accusing the union of illegal electioneering and asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to overturn the results and hold a second referendum...
Defending HUCTW's election-day activities to the group, Rondeau said she was confident that when the judge hands down his decision about the University's charges, which is expected in the next month, the May 17 election results will be upheld...
...even then the union or the University can take the case to the U.S.Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, suspending HUCTW's status in years of legal bureacracy...