Word: stefani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sherman Holcombe says he has one here--Alan Balsam, a 23-year-old, politically radical Brandeis alumnus who is shop steward of the College dining halls. Balsam, an intense man who wears rimless glasses, is a curiously complementary figure to Stefani. He got a job in the Brandeis dining halls after his graduation and organized the workers there into the Cooks and Pastry Cooks, leaving shortly thereafter for a higher-paying job here. He works in Winthrop House dining hall and is carrying on an active, secretive organizing campaign aimed at building a strong position for the negotiations...
Balsam won't say exactly what he's up to, but he sponsors occasional workers' meetings and says he is "organizing against Harvard, not Stefani" because the University's labor relations policies are "paternalistic" and the workers need better wages and benefits. He says he hops for a "substantial wage increase" this spring, but will not give any specific details about his demands or organizing strategy...
...that he is tentatively aiming the campaign toward a wage increase well over 10 per cent and toward disciplining of some troublesome managers. Balsam is at the moment staying with the Cooks, but within the union he could turn out to be the kind of pivotal figure that Stefani was in the thirties...
Earlier this month Mullins held a hearing on Holcombe's suspension. By that time Holcombe and Stefani had reached some sort of detente and Stefani and a union lawyer sat in on the hearing, which resulted in a reduction of Holcombe's unpaid suspension from three days to one. Mullins will not respond specifically to Holcombe's charges, saying only that he feels the suspension is justified and that the scheduling policies Holcombe is complaining about have been worked out between Harvard and the union...
Holcombe now says he still won't accept the suspension, and just this week filed another grievance complaining that Mullins "degraded" him and "took the Lord's name in vain" in a meeting they had on Monday. He also criticises Stefani for not being at the meeting to defend him against the questioning of six supervisors...