Word: mtc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walkout occurred during negotiations between the University and the Maintenance Trades Council (MTC), which combines five separate local unions, including Local 40, the carpenters' union where this strike originated. After the MTC contract expired in December, the men worked on the basis of an informal verbal agreement, with the understanding that they would not strike without 30 days' notice...
Monthly meetings between the University and the president of the MTC, beginning this month, are also guaranteed by the agreement. "The meetings are being held to make sure we'll work together to keep the communication gap from opening," Joyce said. Costello said the meetings are "an absolutely good idea. No harm can be forthcoming from dialogue...
...University and the MTC did work out a compromise, one which, like all compromises, leaves neither side entirely satisfied. Powers explained the new University policy will be that any worker, regardless of seniority, can be reclassified for a period of time not exceeding three days. If the reclassification job will last longer than three days, the reclassified workers will be selected on the basis of seniority, and if the work will exceed 15 days, the worker will have the choice of asking for a layoff or working on the reassignment. A reclassified worker does not suffer any loss...
...relationship between the University and B&G employees. The fact the wildcat strike erupted at all demonstrated a degree of resentment and anger among the employees the University did not suspect. The strike jolted Harvard into improving the concrete terms of the reassignment policy and its communication with the MTC. But the continued disagreement over the suspension penalty and vestigial dissatisfaction over the contract indicates the University has a long way to go toward pacifying its maintenance workers' grievances...
...EVEN TALKING seems to be a problem in this case. The last contract between Harvard and the MTC expired last December; however, the University and the union have consented to extend the agreement so that the employees are still working under the terms of that contract. The two sides met once in February, and once more on March 10 to discuss the issues. Since then, there has been no negotiating. Powers had said he hoped for a meeting during the first week of April, and Costello had also hinted at that possibility; but nothing developed...