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...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...
...think that it is particularly appropriate in a highly decentralized university," he says, citing the different priorities and rules in each of Harvard's largely autonomous units. "The alternate approach to a joint council is to have very much more-detailed rules in the master agreement...
Dunlop, who was recently appointed by President Clinton as the head of a national commission on worker-manager relations in the United States, argues that the joint councils help ensure a more productive, efficient work-place...