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...really a landmark campaign and one thatclericals will look to as a good way to go," saidDenice Mitchell, who works in the Washington, D.C.office of the Service Employees InternationalUnion (SEIU) District 925, a union establishedspecifically to organize clerical workers. "Anorganization like Harvard gives the issuescredibility by its reputation...
...Harvard University Employees Representatives Association (HUERA), which bargains for about 500 custodial workers, voted this summer to affiliate itself with Local 254 of Service Employees International Union. SEIU, which was badly defeated in its attempt to organize clerical and technical workers at Stanford last spring, represents custodial workers at many East Coast schools, including...
...think the move brings more professionalism and experience to the union," Edward W. Powers, Harvard's associate general counsel for labor relations says of HUERA's decision to join SEIU. "I'm now dealing with an international union instead of an independent...
Into this touchy scenario, in the past ten years, have walked a number of hospital unions, most notably local sections of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a subdivision of the AFL-CIO. The SEIU today boasts some half a million members; hospital workers comprise about 200,000 of that number. The union has made its major advances in cities like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, organizing in major hospitals. But until about five years ago the union did no organizing in Boston--a city with a rather conspicuous concentration of hospitals. It wasn't until...
...university is wary of a quick settlement with the SEIU on the terms requested by the workers because any pay hike might have to be duplicated for all non-union workers on the campus. "They can't, for obvious reasons, make it look like the union gets better benefits for workers," one union negotiator says...