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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...
...HUCTW leader Kris Rondeau acknowledged that the union had kept lists of union supporters in the HUCTW offices. But she said the labor cases cited by Harvard as precedent for their argument are not applicable to the HUCTW election...
...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...