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National labor experts said yesterday that even if the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) loses the upcoming election, its 17-year-long effort will have a significant impact on the future of union campaigns in "pink-collar" jobs and private higher education...
...17th, the 3700 support staff will decide whether they support the union and the message. HUCTW has addressed the concerns of workers--from benefits to child care--and gone beyond the issues of the day by representing a theme that will serve workers in the future. For that reason workers should vote to elect HUCTW as their official representative...
...years of organizing on campus, HUCTW has undergone many transformations--growing from its origins as a women's rights group at the Medical school to a group of women employees backed by the national, male-dominated United Aouto Workers union to the present group of employees sponsored by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a 1.1 million member union representing mainly government employees. HUCTW is now in an incarnation best suited to the support staff's needs...
...position of women in the campus governing structure is something that the administration has been slow and hesitant to address. Women compose only a small percentage of the administration and 7 percent of the faculty. But HUCTW, run mostly by women organizers, would represent a support staff composed of 80 percent women. Women's issues and women's representation on campus would have a strong and organized voice if HUCTW were to win the election. And campus child care, which costs an average support staff member half her salary, would have a forceful advocate...
...what the workers need at Harvard, and what they have never had, is a forceful advocate. For all the arguments about whether Harvard is a good employer, it does employ thousands of people. Those people deserve to have an organized voice, and HUCTW is just that voice. Workers should strike a blow for openness at the University for all the groups who have no say in Harvard governance...