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...calls for representation fell on largely deaf ears, he says, so when he was approached by the No Layoffs Campaign, a group of about 20 Cambridge-area activists and workers who had been trying to reform the union’s policy of closed negotiations since the late 1980s, he jumped at the chance to join them...
...Booth says, although at least half a dozen activists have said they are part of both the No Layoffs Campaign and Socialist Alternative. “I think the union likes to exaggerate our presence. They try to scare people away from getting involved in the reform movement, which is a lot broader than they give it credit...
Booth says he has been working with colleagues to reform the union since its founding to make it more democratic and more representative of the membership...
Potter, who is also involved in the informal HUCTW reform group, points to the sit-in as an example of the union’s insufficient dedication...
...even Harvard did not completely escape the problem of academic politics, which complicates general education reform...