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Kris Rondeau, chief organizer of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), asserts that "Women are transforming the labor movement." And she adds that HUCTW, as a union organized by women and for women, is helping to accomplish that transformation...
Gilligan, a feminist scholar who wrote the groundbreaking work, In a Different Voice, said in a recent interview that HUCTW's organizing style, with its emphasis on personal communication and flexibility, is a classic example of women's distinctive approach...
...from these young girls is that there must be another way to solve the problem, she says. "The same vision that this 10-year-old girl had has been considered naive and unworkable in the past," Gilligan says. But this is the exact approach that has been successful for HUCTW in organizing the women clerical workers, she says...
Rondeau, who is perhaps more responsible than anyone else for the unique organizing formula developed by HUCTW, says that "Women make good organizers. Their personalities are flexible. They have unimaginable stamina. They make good listeners and are through...
...Organizing women has been difficult for traditional industrial unions," Harvard labor expert Charles Heckscher says. HUCTW has broken from the traditional labor mold, according to Heckscher. "It has not stressed adversarial, combative tactics. It has stressed self-determination and involvement of people, rather than association with a powerful group," he says...