Word: nigro
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John T. Dunlop, Lamont University professor emeritus; Joseph W. Nigro, general agent for the Boston chapter of the Building and Construction Trades Council; and David A. Zewinski '76, senior vice president for property operations and construction at Harvard Real Estate, all spoke briefly on and answered questions from first years about the dorm renovation project, which is slated to be finished by fall...
Dunlop and Nigro, who helped negotiate the Project-Labor Agreement between Harvard and local unions, explained the agreement, under which the union takes a 10 percent pay cut for renovation work and agreesnot to strike or make a time-consuming protest andmanagement agrees to use only union labor...
...Nigro emphasized, however, that the unionsinvolved had made some sacrifices to allow theproject to proceed...
...amazing that [the food service workers]are not partaking in the coalition of unions,working in a spirit to make Harvard a betterplace," Nigro says. "You can complain aboutHarvard all you want, but if you don't participatein the cooperative spirit ... you have no right tocomplain...
Labor expert Patricia A. Greenfield, a laborrelations scholar at the University ofMassachusetts-Amherst, sides with Nigro, addingthat the union's posture should depend in part onthe University's stance...