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Moreover, union members say the effectiveness of the joint councils depends in large part on whether managers are willing to listen to employees and accept their input...
...There hasn't been the space yet for us to make real changes," says Nona D. Strauss, co-chair of the applied and physical sciences joint council and director of the Science Center. "We try to find generic issues that we really can affect, rather then policy issues that will be decided in another forum...
Steven B. Moomfield '77, a program director at Harvard's Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities, says the program's joint council, of which he is co-chair, has mostly focused on promoting dislogue is general rather than implementing changes...
Barbara C. Yearkes, a secretary in the Physics Department who serves as the other co-chair for the applied and physical sciences joint council, says that she feels that Science Center Director Strauss, who worked her way up from staff member to manager, is very sympathetic to employees' feeling of powerlessness. But not all managers feel the same way, she says...
...What we're trying to do is different than what's been done at the University before and some people have problems dealing with it," says union President Williams, who has served on joint councils at the School of Public Health and the Law School. "It's a power-sharing relationship--some people don't want to share power...