Word: mtc
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MANNING PICKET LINES for four days at various sites throughout the University, more than 200 B&G employees joined the strike in support of the protesting carpenters. The non-carpenter B&G workers, all members of the Maintenance Trades Council of Boston (MTC), had voted on the night of March 20 to join the walkout...
Under the present agreement between Harvard and the MTC, the union must give the University 30 days notice prior to causing any "direct or indirect interference with the University's operations." Harvard claimed the B&G action was "clearly illegal" because no prior notice had been given. Enraged by the union action, University officials said they would not talk to the striking union. "It's not our business" to negotiate with the union when it is "striking illegally," Powers said. But that was just an initial impulse...
James P. Costello, general agent for Local 40--the B&G carpenters' branch of the MTC--countered the University allegations of illegality, saying that the Harvard-MTC agreement "does not deal with a dispute over job security." Once again, as in the disagreement over contracting-out work, the two sides contradicted each other. This time, though, the University, not the union, took action...
...University last met with Gomez, state mediator Douglas Botts and representatives from the Maintenance Trades Council (MTC) of New England March 10. The MTC represents the 300 B&G workers who staged a four-day walkout to protest the University's reassignment of B&G carpenters as a threat to their job security...
Under the present agreement between Harvard and the MTC, the union must give the University 30 days notice before causing any "direct or indirect interference with the University's operation...