Word: huera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These organizers have charged that the HUERA, as a "company union," was not adequately representing its members. The A.F.L. has declared that since Harvard is a leader in other fields it should lead in wages as well...
Handbills now being circulated by the AFL Building Service Employees Local 254 claim, "AFL Scores Victories over Independent at Bindery and at H.A.A." The Local is seeking to represent unskilled employees, now members of the HUERA and other independent employees' unions...
Unorganized employees at the chemical laboratories and at the Arnold Arboretum will vote Thursday on representation by the local, and 236 University janitors who now belong to the HUERA will vote on June 18. The local has also petitioned for elections among members of the Groundsmen's and Truckmen's Associations...
Local 254 regards its paid, full-time employees as a decisive factor in its favor, however. "The president of the HUERA is a janitor," notes Sullivan, a recent graduate of the Trade Union Program of the Graduate School of Business Administration. "That's the main difference. We are professionals, working all day, everyday for our members." He adds that officers who are not financially dependent upon the University could bargain more freely...
...HUERA officers recognize the professional ability of their opponents, but add, "That's more than offset by the fact that we know what we're talking about." The company union's executive board includes representatives of each employment category from the different divisions of the University, in the Cambridge-Boston area...