Word: labor
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What makes Sullivan so anxious to participate in labor negotiations at Harvard is that settlements here are the key to contract terms at other colleges. "We live and die," he told some B&G workers, "by what goes on at Harvard, the oldest and most prestigious university." Sullivan feels that his past experience would enable him to get very good settlements out of Harvard, thereby boosting the contract benefits at some of his other area universities such as B.U. and M.I.T...
Petitions were filed by different groups with the State Labor Relations Commission, which will eventually decide, either by a judgment or an election, which group actually represents the craftsmen of Harvard. The decision is not due for some time since the State Commission has a huge backlog of cases created by new laws allowing public school teachers to bargain. Meanwhile the B&G crtfatsmen continued to work under a contract signed...
Members of the Harvard Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, however, argue that the CP, USA is to the right of their position. Harvard members of Progressive Labor also deny that the Communists are the most radical group around and claim the extreme Left for themselves--but then this is the proverbial geography game of the New Left...
...following article was written after discussions with members of the SDS Labor Committee. The views an hospital organizing techniques represent the policies of the United Hospital Workers as developed by the union members and officers with participation by SDS members. -- Ed.'s note...
They are hard to organize for several other reasons. They are a high-turnover group. The strike has only limited use for a hospital worker since patients' lives are at stake. A further difficulty is that non-professional hospital workers are not covered by the state labor relations law, which requires management to recognize a union as soon as it has the support of a majority of the workers in a shop...