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While some of the group’s protests for the No Layoffs Campaign—which included rallies around Mass. Hall, speeches outside of the Holyoke Center and marches through Harvard Square—drew hundreds of people, the organization was ultimately disappointed with May’s HUCTW contract proposal, which does not include a “no layoffs” clause. Potter and Booth say they will encourage their fellow union members to reject the proposal at the June 17 ratification vote, but expect it will pass anyway...
Fenstermacher, who left the No Layoffs Campaign after losing the HUCTW executive board elections in December, says the group fell short because members refused to launch a truly comprehensive initiative like PSLM’s Living Wage Campaign, which worked for years prior to the Mass. Hall sit-in to garner support from students, faculty and city leadership...
Fenstermacher said his initial push last April to involve the HUCTW membership in negotiation came from that very instinct, adding that if politics have since divided him from the No Layoffs Campaign, then their mutual disgust with HUCTW’s leadership united them...
Potter, who is also involved in the informal HUCTW reform group, points to the sit-in as an example of the union’s insufficient dedication...
...that time, HUCTW was in contract negotiations,” he says. “They got a living wage for their lowest paid, and as soon as they had that, they basically dropped out. They said they didn’t have a living wage problem at HUCTW, and they dropped out. The progressive labor community at large were thunderstruck by that utter lack of solidarity with the campaign...