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Student groups around campus, led by Phillips Brooks House's Committee for Economic Change (CEC), a student organization which has always offered active support to HUCTW, are signing a petition which urges the University to remain neutral. The petition specifically asks Harvard not to engage in anti-union activities and...
Kimberly F. Ladin '87-'88, co-chairman of CEC, attended an Undergraduate Council meeting last week, and asked the council to consider the neutrality petition.
HUCTW says they have enough cards to petition for an election any time they want. But at this point, the union hasn't played any of those cards, waiting until the most strategic time for a worker referendum.
"The student response to the petition has beenvery positive," Way said. However, "the people whodo not support it are not willing to listen to ourargument," he added.
Another purpose of the petition "is to getpeople to know what's going on," said Way, "It'snot just an issue of clerical workers, there's alarger issue of the unfair practices and powerstructure of Harvard."