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...establish and maintain a sense among Harvard workers that their union will be a friend and supporter, HUCTW leaders say that the union must maintain its own autonomy despite its national backing. They add that AFSCME has been wise not to meddle excessively in the local operation...
...AFSCME has a great deal of respect for Kris [Rondeau, HUCTW leader,] and does not want to intrude on the autonomy of the organization," said Kiley...
AFSCME hopes to make HUCTW a symbol of the new kind of white-collar organizing that unions will face in the eighties. But leaders of HUCTW, which began its organizing drive in the early seventies in the Medical Area, say they are still relying on the same grassroots techniques they have used for the last 16 years...
Organizers hope that this grassroots style will provide the one-on-one contact necessary to achieve a majority of support throughout Harvard, a legal requirement before HUCTW can be recognized as an official bargaining unit. With the help of AFSCME's money, resources and publicity, organizers are confident that the local union which has been a thorn in the side of the University's central administration will finally achieve success this fall...
...past HUCTW has been at odds with another national union, the United Auto Workers (UAW). Leaders of the local union broke off from UAW, which now maintains a separate Harvard organizing effort. Leaders of HUCTW say their relationship with AFSCME has been much more amicable...