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Officials of the newly certified Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) yesterday said the union may ask for improved campus security during its upcoming negotiations with the University, since a woman was raped during daytime hours in the Science Center last week...
...whole issue of security hasn't come up a lot," said HUCTW organizer Marie Manna. "Obviously something like this focuses it a lot as to how vulnerable people...
Linda Lambkin, a negotiator for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), HUCTW's parent union, said that building security considerations were often negotiated into union contracts...
...staff position doesn't acknowledge that there is a distinction--organizationally, philosophically and legally--between a worker and a union member. Once you recognize this difference, it becomes clear why "only certain workers" at Harvard could vote for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) transition team: only certain workers had decided to join the union...
...idea that someone who opposes the very idea of a union should choose who meets with the University to discuss ways to ensure harmony between HUCTW and Harvard is counterintuitive: the worker who opposes the union shouldn't care, and the union doesn't need advice on this matter from those who are not sympathetic to its very existence. Every club, from the Boy Scouts to the Democratic Party, has a rule for making internal decisions: each member, one vote. To stray from that rule would be organizational suicide...