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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...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Election Is Landmark | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Election Is Landmark | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Election Is Landmark | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Election Is Landmark | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Election Is Landmark | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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