Word: sftp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...internal structure of the Boston chapter reflects SftP's anti-elitism. There are no officers; instead, a steering committee made up of the office staff person and representatives of the several activity groups arrive at all decisions collectively. Gordon says there are about 100 active members in the chapt defined as such by their attendance at weekly meetings in the various activity groups. About four times that number are active sporadically, he says...
...King says that membership is roughly one-third workers, secretaries, and draftsmen in scientific establishments; one-third high school science teachers, computer programmers, and technicians; and one-third academics and professionals, including industry scientists, professors and students. Within SftP, academic or professional credentials carry no status or privileges...
Members of the Boston chapter say an especially important activity group deals with occupational health and safety. Presently this group provides information and technical support to scientific workers in laboratories. Diana Echevarria, a member of SftP and a former research assistant at the Harvard Biology Laboratories, for example, has acted as a liason between SftP and the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee (HEOC), of which she is also a member. This relationship supports HEOC's drive to secure representation on the Branton Committee charged with setting safety standards for the recombinant DNA experiments at the Bio Labs...
Echevarria says SftP plans to expand its contracts and technical assistance to unions and workers in general. There is also an SftP backed organization of laboratory workers...
...activities of the China group, the teaching group, and the occupational health and safety group illustrate an important difference between SftP and other organizations of activist scientists, which are usually single issue lobbying groups. The Union of Concerned Scientists, for example, is essentially a public interest group limited to doing research and providing expert testimony at government hearings investigating hazards in the nuclear energy industry. In contrast, members of SftP say that their primary concern is to develop a mass consciousness, to convince people that the present system must undergo fundamental change...