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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...
James Burnett, who has been a janitor in freshman dormitories for 31 years and once served as an HUERA officer, also comments that "The University has always been fair to us, and they were always fair when I sat with them on wages and grievances...
...size of the Local's coffers and the salaries of its officers and staff are a bone of contention for many prospective members. HUERA dues are only 25 cents per month, while Local 254 charges its members $2.50 monthly. "We'd have to get a lot back from the AFL to make up for what we would be losing," says HUERA Treasurer Standing...
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...