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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...
...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...
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...
...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...