Word: huera
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...Harvard University Employees Representatives Association (HUERA), which bargains for about 500 custodial workers, voted this summer to affiliate itself with Local 254 of Service Employees International Union. SEIU, which was badly defeated in its attempt to organize clerical and technical workers at Stanford last spring, represents custodial workers at many East Coast schools, including...
...University's oldest union, HUERA was formed about 50 years ago to represent nearly all of Harvard's support service employees. The police, printers and dining hall workers eventually splintered from HUERA to compose separate bargaining units, charing HUERA with being "a company union...
...independent union, HUERA had trouble maintaining solidarity among the rank and file. The union last year was wracked by a bizarre internal power struggle, in which HUERA's vice president and attorney at one point sought a restraining order to bar HUERA's president from officially representing the union...
Then Crockett, as HUERA president, entered the picture. He attended the grievance hearings and agreed with the University that the two union officials in fact needed permission, which Harvard proved they didn't receive. Rather than take the case to arbitration, the union decided to file an unfair labor practice suit with the NLRB. Crockett unwittingly signed the unfair labor practice suit, without being informed by the union's lawyer of the nature of the document. He returned from his summer vacation, received a call from the manager of custodial services, and unwittingly signed an affadavit supporting the University...
...union's executive board reacted vehemently--how could HUERA expect to win a case with the NLRB if the union's president supported Harvard's position? The governing board demanded his resignation, and Crockett says he told the governing board, "I'll resign if you want me to." He never signed a paper declaring he had resigned, but later changed his mind. HUERA filed suit in an effort to get an injunction barring him from conducting union business. Crockett defended himself, and the suit was thrown out of court...