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...December 6 staff editorial on this page entitled "Bad Faith, Again" may have left readers confused as to whether the University is quilty of making contract offers directly to Harvard patrolmen rather than through its recognized union...
This is not the first time the University has refused to bargain in good faith with the patrolmen. Earlier this fall Harvard negotiators refused to negotiate a compromise over a union proposal to adopt a new work schedule similar to those at several other local and university police departments and then tried to pressure the union by threatening to withdraw retroactive wage increases to be granted after a new contract is approved. And last year the University forced a union grievance into binding arbitration--which found on behalf of the patrolmen--instead of negotiating with its workers...
Harvard's attempts to take advantage of the patrolmen are particularly cynical. Under contract provisions which are standard for police unions, the patrolmen are barred from striking, picketting or taking job actions which would threaten the public safety. The union has said it will not engage in an illegal strike; unlike the University it can only bargain in good faith...
...patrolmen's latest charge--that Harvard tried to subvert the collective bargaining process--is disturbing because that process is the raison d'etre of unions. To deny workers the advantage of a united stance is to make unions meaningless. Sadly, however, the University's attitude toward unions is all too clear...
...stymie the dining hall workers' union. Last year officials tried to hire non-union labor at the Faculty Club and forced workers at the Business School's Kresge dining hall into a different bargaining unit after hiring Marriott to run the cafeteria. Harvard's attempt to defeat the patrolmen's union is just the latest in a series of wrongheaded efforts to subvert unions...