Word: obu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday's discussions came after Phillip N. Lee, a third-year law student and spokesman for OBU had called Wednesday night for a meeting with Cox and L Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University. The meeting was scheduled for 2 p.m. yesterday to negotiate the OBU demands with mediators from MCAD. Wiggins did not attend yesterday's talks...
...major points of controversy are OBU's influence on a 20 per cent minimum of non-white workers on all Harvard construction sites and the demand that painters' helpers be given equal pay with journeymen painters. The University has called the hiring demand discriminatory and out of proportion to the 9.3 per cent non-white population listed for Boston and Cambridge in the 1960 census...
THOUGH the overt reason for the current impasse in negotiations between the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) and Harvard is disagreement over OBU's demand that 20 per cent of construction workers on Harvard projects be blacks or members of other minority groups, the cause of the impasse lies deeper: the negotiations have constantly been marked by a mistrust on both sides...
...added to the gap. Harvard has been most reluctant to discuss setting a goal of a specific percentage of black workers on construction jobs, and has, for the most part, offered only vaguer promises-which can hardly be satisfactory to blacks, who have seen many such promises produce little. OBU, for its part, has twice broken off negotiations, and quickly proceeded to militant action-a "fight-talk" attitude not conducive to improving the negotiating atmosphere...
...possible that some Harvard administrators have been reluctant to begin talking about percentages because, in the back of their minds, they fear if the percentage is not achieved, the University-whether or not it is at fault-will become the target of another OBU campaign in which Harvard will be accused not only of being racist but also of breaking its word. To remove this possibility, whatever percentage is agreed upon should be accepted by both parties only as a desirable goal; failure to achieve the goal would not, by itself, indicate a rupture of the agreement...