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Even large organizations with broad, fixedagendas, tend to choose negotiation over publicconflict. Students working for the Harvard Unionof Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW)organization drive focused their attention onbuilding community support for the union. Bydistributing pins, posters and balloons, thestudents intended to create an atmosphere wherestaff members considering the union would be lessinfluenced by the University's anti-unioncampaign.Massive rallies like this 1985 divestmentprotest are growing rarer as student groups branchout and choose smaller, more pragmatic goals...
Since a large number of Cambridge residents work for the University, city officials occasionally thrust themselves into Harvard's internal labor disputes. This spring, the City Council became involved in the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers' (HUCTW) fight to unionize the University's support staff. The Council passed a resolution in March that supported the would-be union and urged the University not to conduct a campaign against HUCTW...
...things a lot of activists are doing now are much less flamboyant," says Ruddick, a student organizer for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) campaign this spring. "They don't always make the news because they're concrete things that affect people's lives...
...during HUCTW's campaign to become the official bargaining unit of Harvard's nearly 4000 support staff, she engaged in what she calls "grassroots activism." Rather than holding sit-ins, she focused on canvassing, communicating and educating the people whose lives the drive affected, she says...
...University Health Services (UHS) employee who said his supervisor harassed him for his support for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) is considering legal action against the University...