Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the exception of some scuffles in the late 1930's, Harvard's labor relations with its employees have been comparatively peaceful. This spring, however, Harvard--for the first time in its history--had to put up with picket lines around the University...
...strikers. Thus, they are not significant because of the havoc they worked on Harvard. But the strikes do reflect the difficulties of dealing with employees' changing needs; and the misunderstandings that lie behind at least one of the strikes points out the painful lack of frequent communication between labor and management...
...would not recognize the Crafts Maintenance Council as the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership. The University pointed out that another union, the Building Services Employees International (AFL-CIO) claimed that it represented the BMGA membership and that the BSEIU had filed petitions with the Massachusetts State Labor Relations Board making such claims. The University said that as an employer it would violate national labor policy by arbitrarily choosing one of the contesting unions as the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership. It therefore counseled patience and said that it would let a state labor board election determine which union...
...import materials without paying duty-as long as the goods made from them in Mexican plants are shipped right back across the border. If the returning products meet certain U.S. tariff-law standards, the manufacturers need pay only a nominal U.S. duty on the value of the Mexican labor involved. "Our idea," says Octaviano Campos Salas, Mexican Minister of Industry and Commerce, "is to offer an alternative to Hong Kong, Japan and Puerto Rico for free enterprise...
Though wages along the border are about 40% higher than those in Hong Kong, the Mexican offer is attractive to U.S. companies stung by rising U.S. labor costs. All fringe benefits included, unskilled labor in Tijuana runs at around 60? to 75? an hour, compared with as much as $2.40 in Los Angeles. In Ciudad Juarez, a sprawling poverty pocket (unemployment: 25,000 out of a labor force of 125,000) just south of El Paso, skilled machinists command a bare 50? an hour...