Word: kris
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together Kris Rondeau, head of the fledgling Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), and Dunlop, the University's chief negotiator, spent four months last winter and spring closeted in contract negotiations for the University's support staff workers...
...heard disturbing reports from our elected negotiators about union leadership pressure on them to limit their contract demands and to adopt a conciliatory style towards the University negotiators. A number of elected union negotiators had resigned in protest over undemocratic processes. We brought our concerns about this to Kris Rondeau and Marie Manna in a letter, which was followed up by a face-to-face meeting and round table discussion in April. In addition, all of us participated in area union committees and conversed weekly with union staff and other union members on union matters. We promoted membership participation...
...been negotiating for seven years," Bozzotto says. "And I marvel at the way Kris Rondeau, [HUCTW's director], and her staff have handled these negotiations. What they come up with will definitely be a model...
...Kris has broken down these committees and motivated people to have two attention spans," one to their narrow topic and another to the negotiations as a whole, Bozzotto says. "Without a doubt it's working because if it weren't they'd be at each other's throats...
...Women are more involved because they've see how successful Kris has been. That definitely wouldn't have happened if a man had been running that local," Bozzotto says...