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...mail last month to more than 200 professors from across the University, the group outlined grievances about the administration’s spending decisions, questioned the legitimacy of claimed budget crises and demanded a more aggressive approach from the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). The e-mail says the union has been too accommodating to the University...
...shows some sign of success with the faculty, it has not gained much ground within the overall union. Potter and fellow NLC member Randy Fenstermacher were soundly defeated in union representative elections last month. Both favored adding a “no-layoffs” clause to the upcoming HUCTW contract...
Bill Jaeger, director of HUCTW, said that the NLC is exaggerating the problem, and although the prospect of layoffs is scary to employees, the activist group is misrepresenting the magnitude of upcoming job cuts...
Rather than trying to fight the inevitable layoffs, the union management is focusing on building a safety net for those it affects most directly, according to Jaeger. HUCTW is currently negotiating a new “Work Security” clause that would give preference to previous Harvard employees when new positions open...
...screw over everyone like this, especially if their whole line is completely specious?” Potter said of the University administration earlier this week. “My problem with what is going on is that there hasn’t been a proactive campaign mounted by HUCTW demanding an end to these layoffs and defending the people who have been laid off. Our campaign is trying to light a fire under the union to get them going on this...