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...Union leaders also said that the University conceded on the major sticking point in the negotiations: its attempts to gain more flexibility in hiring non-union, non-local workers, who are less expensive than members of the union...
...company's use of subcontractors and non-union workers at McDonnell Douglas plants for labor once performed by union machinists. The practice has recently led to costly strikes at Boeing and General Motors, and is especially threatening to workers already faced with cutbacks in the post-Cold War defense industry. "With the dramatic cutbacks in defense spending over the past few years, a company like McDonnell Douglas needs to be as supple as it can," says TIME's James Graff. "It affords a company much more flexibility if it can use smaller, non-union companies to make parts and tools...
Workers are angered by the attempts of Timothy Manning, Harvard's chief negotiator and director of labor relations, to gain more flexibility in hiring non-union, non-local subcontractors...
Responding to a University spokesperson's comment that Harvard is committed to "a level playing field between union and non-union workers," the steward said HDS employees "have no illusions that Harvard is negotiating in good faith...
...dining services employee in Quincy House, speaking on condition of anonymity, said morale would be hurt if non-local, non-union subcontractors were hired. Many current employees have worked together for years, she said...