Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EMINENT AMONG THE activities of a large coalition of groups that have worked to push Harvard toward divestment from companies that do business in South Africa is the effort of local labor groups--specifically Local 26 of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers, which represents Harvard Dining Service workers. While the 450 University employees are only a small percentage of the local's total membership, the president of local 26, Domenic M. Bozzotto, has been particularly active in denouncing the University's investment policies and helping the activists at various events...
...been revealed recently that Bozzotto was a trustee and treasurer for two union pension funds that held at least $750,000 in bonds in South Africa-related companies. While Bozzotto has said that he divested in 1981, Labor Department disclosure forms--which he signed--show that between 1983 and 1984 Bozzotto in fact purchased a total of over $2.5 million in bonds in Texaco, General Motors, Ford and Caterpillar. All do business in South Africa. Particularly ironic is that Texaco and Ford are two of the corporations from which the University recently divested...
Although the History Department granted Gibson one semester credit for his year-long labor, departments here give course credit for study abroad on a case-by-case basis. Most students enrolled in course programs abroad say they receive some credit from Harvard...
...labor conflict in recent years ended more dramatically than the collision between Ronald Reagan and the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Two days after PATCO's illegal Aug. 3, 1981, walkout over pay scales, benefits and working conditions, an angry President ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to fire 11,345 strikers and hire replacements. Only about 500 PATCO members were rehired; the rest are permanently blackballed...
...National Air Traffic Controllers Association announced that it intends to win certification as a bargaining unit. The association declared that it had collected 4,200 signatures, or the 30% of its potential membership necessary to petition for certification, and would be filing the pertinent documents with federal labor-relations authorities within a month. The aspiring union, though, has openly declared that it will not use PATCO's methods to obtain any future bargaining demands. Said John Thornton, NATCA's national coordinator: "Our constitution pledges us to use lawful means only. We will work within the system." By law, federal employees...