Word: seiu
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Controversy centers on the possibility that security guards now posted at the gates, members of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 254, will be replaced by parking "monitors" from the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). It remains unclear why the transfer would take place...
According to Travers, the University employs about 100 security guards and 300 to 400 groundskeepers with SEIU...
...SEIU was put on the ballot after a group of professionals at the Amherst and Boston campuses, eager to avoid the mistakes of previous years, interviewed several unions. The rival union was put on the ballot by Gerald A. Quarles, head of a professional's non-union campus association...
Professors, librarians, clerical workers, blue-collar workers and police at UMass already have union representation, but the group of about 1200 professionals, which include technicians, managers lawyers, nurses and architects, has been difficult to organize in the past, said Tom Sharpe, a SEIU spokesperson...
...SEIU does strike, employees of the Brown food services, plant operations, and library union will refuse to work...