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National labor experts said yesterday that even if the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) loses the upcoming election, its 17-year-long effort will have a significant impact on the future of union campaigns in "pink-collar" jobs and private higher education...
Citing Harvard's reputation and the women's issues the union has brought to the forefront, the experts said the support staff election here is a landmark one for unions in private higher education and for pink-collar workers...
Because of the influx of women into the workforce, most pink-collar workers--employees in the service sector of the economy earning $14,000 to $30,000 a year--are women clerical workers. Of the 3700 support staff workers eligible to vote in the May 17 union certification election, 83 percent are women...
HUCTW has built its campaign around the issues labor experts cite as typical of the new pink-collar workplace: child care, pensions, long-term employees, pay equity and medical benefits...
...rise of pink-collar occupations has put day care right at the top of the list of priorities, and this is thefirst major organizing drive that I know of whereday care has been a major issue and where male aswell as female workers have come out in support ofthe issue," Melcher said...