Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several employee groups have withdrawn from the HUERA within the past few years. Just this month the bindery workers voted to join an AFL craft union, and employees of the Department of Athletics would enter Local 254, if the State Labor Relations Board upholds the Local's protest on two decisive votes cast in a jurisdictional election...
...organizers have built their campaign around charges that the company union has represented its members ineffectively. As a result, they claim, the University has fallen behind MIT (whose employees belong to Local 254) in wages, working conditions, and fringe benefits...
...HUERA is dead!" charges Edward T. Sullivan, chairman of the 3,000 member Local. "It isn't representing anybody...
Officers of the HUERA show no reluctance in picking up this challenge, however. They have compiled facts and figures to try to show that wages and benefits for University employees top those at institutions other than MIT, which the Local represents: Radcliffe, BU, Simmons, and Tufts...
...University has followed a policy of strict neutrality during the AFL campaign. "We prefer that they remain neutral," Sullivan says, adding that his Local is neutral toward the University. "You can't call a guy a bum, and then go in and ask him for raises," he explains...