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When Kristine Rondeau first walked into a small Tremont St. labor union office 10 years ago, she was optimistic...
...Rondeau, at the time a 23-year-old research assistant at the Medical School, was confident that a clerical and technical union at Harvard would soon be formed. Rondeau is still waiting...
...split came primarily over disagreements over the grass roots organizing stlye favored by Rondeau as opposed to a more rapid proceedure favored by the UAW. Rondeau said her staff had attempted to build an internal organization within Harvard and to work on a "personal basis with Harvard employees." She argued that the UAW was pushing too hard and had not established a solid local foundation...
...year-old Rondeau says UAW has not yet spoken to 25 percent of the affected workforce, but before the election she promises that UAW will "build every bridge and relationship to keep [themselves] from being bought off by the University." Rondeau and UAW officials have held lunchtime talks throughout the year for workers on issues ranging from comparable worth to the rise of computers in the workplace. Later this month they will stage a musical comedy in Memorial Hall entitled "Cambridge, Cambridge" and will publish an art journal beginning this summer. This fall, the union organizer says Harvard students...
...Harvard has to learn to sit down with women workers as equals. The days of paternalism are over," says Rondeau...