Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department, and facilitate the upward input into the decision-making process. Chafin would agree. "This office has been very open to suggestions and ideas from the entire complement of personnel and has instituted programmatic changes based upon some input," Chafin says, citing the initiation of monthly plenary staff meetings, new police cruisers with more effective equipment and the influence of dispatchers' opinions in the design of their new uniforms...
...Wacker outlined these steps in a letter distributed to all undergraduate Houses and the Freshman Union last night. The letter also urges all students and staff to wash their hands carefully after using the bathroom and before eating...
...administration's seven-year tenure Harvard has employed a combination of legal expertise and an aggressive and intimidating bargaining style to either deflect or squelch labor discontent. Harvard's experienced legal staff delayed organizing efforts in the Medical Area and at Harvard's teaching hospitals with a long series of court battles. When delaying tactics fail, the University often resorts to subtle intimidation, perfectly legal, of course. In the case of organizing efforts at the teaching hospitals, Harvard filed a lawsuit against the director of the union, accusing him of assault--a charge the judge later threw out of court...
...Nathan M. Pusey '28 (one certainly not free of all labor troubles) as a time of relative harmony. The workers swallowed the negotiated agreements, however imperfect, because of identification with the Harvard community and a personal relationship with the University administrators. "President Pusey had the philosophy that students and staff were part of the same Harvard community, and he could relate to the lowest of the supporting staff," one kitchen worker said. "Bok looks by you when he walks, and Pusey would say hello to the lowliest worker. Pusey would and could chew you out, but he approached...
When President Bok replaced Pusey in 1971, he reorganized the University's administrative structure to accomodate these changes.. This included a shake-up of employee relations, staff. For Pusey's director of personnel, Bok substituted in-house lawyers--Steiner as general counsel and Power as associate general counsel--to handle legal issues related to employees. "There was a definite conscious attempt at reorganization," Powers says. "Bok made this a more business-oriented university, and brought in people to make it more businesslike," he adds...