Word: prounion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, as part of a student, prounion delegation, I met with Bok in his office in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to end the administration's anti-union campaign. We knew we were meeting with one of the Big Boys of the Corporate World, so we tried to be polite and respectable. I removed my earring and even wore a jacket and tie. We sat up straight, avoided rhetoric, and kept our feet off the coffee table...
...author also implies that the Harvard administration's "business attitude" towards unionization is lowlier than a "moral" prounion attitude. What is immoral about a business-like decision? We are discussing people's jobs here; you can be damn sure a business attitude is important to everyone concerned. Perhaps the editor is unaware that a union is a marketed, strategically organized business itself--what else are union dues for? And should the author be thinking of the union drive as a completely spontaneous call to the masses, perhaps he or she should note that union drive handbooks advise organizers that...
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