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...BGMA voted on December 7, 1966, to affiliate with the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council should have convinced Harvard that the BSEIU had no real basis for its claims, the BGMA and the BCMC officers felt. The officers saw only skulduggery in Harvard's insistence that there should be a state-run election...
...contract. The union would be able to get only the smallest pay settlements retroactive to the last contract because of the great time span. Thus, they felt that Harvard was operating primarily out of economic motives and not out of consideration for its employees in insisting upon a state-run election...
This time the Defense Department shied away from its politically unpopular proposal to merge federal Reserve and the state-run Guard. Instead, it recommended outright elimination of 15 understrength Guard divisions, four Reserve brigades and many other smaller units. Total authorized personnel would shrink by only 38,500-to 640,000-because surviving combat units would be reinforced to permit their deployment within eight weeks of call-up and some new outfits would be formed. All combat components would be in the Guard, which would have eight divisions and 18 brigades on quick-response status. The active Reserve would consist...
Harvard contends that a special state-run election should determine who is the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership. But Union officials point to the overwhelmingly clear status of the vote which authorized the Crafts Council as the bargaining agent and to the fact that a large back-log of cases would make a state election nearly a year away as reasons why Harvard should recognize the Crafts Council...
Furthermore, they note that Harvard, as a non-profit institution, is not bound by Massachusetts Fair Labor Laws and would not have to abide by the decision in a state-run election...