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...Harvard University Employees Representative Association (HUERA) was Harvard's first union, founded in 1938 and originally representing all of the University's unionized employees. Other workers, such as dining hall, police and printers, eventually splintered from HUERA, calling it a company union--one that accepts everything management wants...
Since early 1979, when it last held elections, HUERA has had a number of clashes with Harvard, climaxing this summer with the unfair labor practice charge now under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board. While internal disagreements have not consistently hampered the University's largest union--it represents nearly 500 custodians and 50 security guards, about as many employees in total as the dining workers union--HUERA's politics in the last two years have hardly proved dull, as the following chronology attests...
November 30, 1979: HUERA's old contract expires, and leaders pledge to fight the University tooth-and-nail. Crockett says, "Harvard doesn't like to give up money. They say they're broke, but then they build a $100,000 building." Bonislawski says, "It really gets to me when Harvard says workers are a dime a dozen. We should have the benefits of the wealth we help produce...
...union negotiating teams met with Powers and his assistants braced for tough, drawn-out talks. But one by one, the unions settled for the University's first and only offer, the 10-9-8. The Harvard University Employees Representatives Association (HUERA) bargaining on behalf of custodians and security guards, then the MTC (carpenters, electricians and painters), the Harvard University Police Association, Locals 300 and 16b of the Graphic Arts International Union (bookbinders and lithographers), and finally Harvard's biggest union (Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union, representing dining hall employees) and the University's smallest union...
Most Harvard workers have expressed general satisfaction over the settlements reached. Fred Walden, vice president of Local 26, says "It's about the best we could hope for." Darlene I. Bonislawski, vice president of HUERA, says the agreement served everyone's best interests. Walden points to the conservative attitude of University workers, particularly the older ones. "It's a good offer, and they'll take what they...