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...still believe Harvard has a responsibility to those workers," said John Laughlin, the spokesperson for Painters and Allied Trades District Council Five, the workers' chosen bargaining agent. "We expect we will be out there until that workforce is back to work in some capacity...
...labor dispute first began when Everett's workers started working at Harvard and learned that unionized painters working on the same projects were earning additional benefits and between $5 and $8 more per hour, according to Laughlin. After learning of the wage disparity, all 24 of the workers signed cards indicating that they wanted to join a union themselves...
...Laughlin said the company responded by hiring a law firm with a union-busting reputation and dismissing five workers in what union officials called retaliation...
...Rather than be picked off one by one, the group wanted to go on strike for union recognition," Laughlin said...
...Eliot '04, e. e. cummings '15, James Laughlin '36, Robert Bly '50, Donald Hall '51, Frank O'Hara '50 and Harold Brodkey '51 and many other poets all either contributed or worked for the Advocate, then moved on to bigger and better things in the larger literary world outside the Square...