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...addition, Kris Rondeau, the director of HUCTW, solicited support from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Jr. '54 (D-Mass.) and his nephew Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.), both of whom agreed to support the union...
Student groups around campus, led by Phillips Brooks House's Committee for Economic Change (CEC), a student organization which has always offered active support to HUCTW, are signing a petition which urges the University to remain neutral. The petition specifically asks Harvard not to engage in anti-union activities and not to delay the union election...
...February 22, amid floating balloons and descending banners in Cambridge's First Baptist Church, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) announced that a majority of the University's 4000 support staff members had handed signed pieces of paper to the union. Pieces of paper which are the first step in determining whether Harvard's clerical and technical workers--the people who assist professors and work in labs and administrative offices--will have a union...
Union organizers and Harvard administrators say that they do not plan to accelerate their campaigning in earnest until HUCTW files its election cards, the next step in having a campus-wide union vote. But, in the past two weeks, by all accounts, campaigning on both sides has become much more vocal...
...past few weeks, the union has lined up an impressive list of endorsements. First civil rights leader Coretta Scott King penned a personal letter to support staff backing HUCTW's parent union. Then, two weeks later, Rep. Barney Frank '62 (D.-Mass.), wrote his own letter supporting the union and criticizing the University's anti-union status. Frank--who first coined the phrase "it's not anti-Harvard to be pro-union"--has pledged to speak on campus in favor of the union...