Word: jointed
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Today, the University has almost 40 joint councils, and with a celebration of the union's fifth anniversary this week and the renewed support for joint councils in the second union contract approved January 7 this year, it might seem that "employee empowerment" is working...
Despite some concrete achievements, however, the joint councils have a mandate more for discussion than for action, management is often still distant from workers and union members agree that not enough workers feel they are a part of the joint councils...
...February 13, 1989, a union-management team issued a preliminary "Understanding" that included an emphasis on the importance of joint communication and problem-solving between managers and union members...
With this goal in mind, the two sides agreed on the formation of joint councils, outlined in Article I of the collective bargaining agreement and reaffirmed in the new agreement negotiated last fall...
Lamont University Professor Emeritus John T. Dunlop, Harvard's chief negotiator for the first agreement, says he is personally in favor of greater employee participation in management decisions. Moreover, he says that the joint council structure is well-suited to the varied, spread-out organization of the University...