Word: representation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It's fairly clear that Reston with his usual thoroughness talked to a number of people in the course of his search for the truth of the matter. It certainly looks as if he consulted the British ambassador, and possibly the Canadian and the French (though the phrase "Western embassies...
Anthony Mainionis' Haemon is adequate but somewhat colorless. Marian Hailey manages sufficiently to convey the weak-willed and vacillating Ismene--"infirm of purpose," to use Lady Macbeth's taunt. Antigones are rare, but Ismenes are a dime a dozen. Jane Farnol brings a good deal of warmth to the role...
Three different unions have contested the right to represent the 265 Harvard tradesmen--carpenters, electricians, plumbers, groundskeepers, truck drivers, and mechanics--who comprise the BGMA.
One of the unions, the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO), has held that the BGMA voted unofficially last fall to affiliate with it. Two other unions, the Building Services Employes International and a group seeking to keep the name BGMA, have also claimed to represent the B&G workers...
The BCMC called a commencement-time strike, in which many tradesmen participated, to show that it did in fact represent BGMA workers. The strike ended when Harvard agreed to attend a conciliation conference. At the conference, the three contesting unions and the University agreed to the state-run election.