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Labor experts say that the HUCTW drive is a symbol for heightened efforts nationwide to organize white collar workers, especially in universities and service industries...
Leslie Sullivan, who founded the independent organizing drive in the Medical Area that has grown into HUCTW, says since she left the effort in 1981 there has been an increase in one-to-one outreach efforts. Now there is an organizing committee in each of the 22 organizing areas across campus and "a real understanding on the part of the workers what the union is," she says...
...HUCTW campaign is very symbolic for the labor movement because Harvard is a decentralized work place, heavily populated by white collar and service workers, a lot of autonomy in the workplace and not necessarily much respect," says Heckscher...
Last month HUCTW accomplished a feat that has stumped the other unions at the University--drawing together all seven Harvard unions into a coalition, to work together and show solidarity in the case of a strike. Union experts see this unprecedented move as a testament to HUCTW's successful organizing strategies...
...While HUCTW will no doubt lose some of itssupporters from this departing group, Rondeau isoptimistic about the prospects for winning overthe newly hired staff and for retaining adisproportionate share of union supporters, whowill choose to stay at Harvard for the election...