Word: labors
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...Labor Relations...
While many labor organizations in the state have supported Kerry out of loyalty to the Democratic party, some renegade union leaders are looking beyond traditional commitments...
...that negotiations had been conducted without their input and that the union had failed to give them enough information about the contract before they had to vote on it. In fact, some workers are so disgruntled that they plan to file a grievance against Local 254 with the National Labor Relations Board, charging that the union did not represent them in good faith...
...appears that Local 254 may not have represented its members very well. However, an even larger problem is that the union probably did not have much leverage to use in bargaining with the University. Timothy R. Manning, Harvard's director of labor relations, claimed that the new contract is intended to bring Harvard's custodial workers in line with market prices. Outside contractors have been competing with Harvard's unionized custodians, and in the past several years, many individual schools and departments within the University have hired outside companies. Competition with outside contractors pressured Local 254 to accept wage decreases...
Harvard's labor practices are especially important because the University is the fourth largest employer in Massachusetts and the largest employer in Cambridge. And while we appreciate the University's attempts to control costs in an era of exponentially exploding tuition prices, we wonder about the ramifications of current trends in the job market. As the power and influence of unions wanes in the face of competition with cheap labor at home and abroad, many workers are forced to accept increasingly less generous contracts. As in the new Local 254 contract, older workers are offered more attractive early retirement plans...