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...Stefani had already made substantial progress by the time he made the T-frame, but it was to be his master stroke, the tactical device that would sweep in the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Union...
...told these people a company union was no good," Stefani says. "It couldn't strike, I said we have our international. I had a mallet with me: bang, and the glass on the left went to smithereens. I said the AF of I was much stronger. I hit my mallet on the unbreakable glass and it cracked, so there's the difference. So we got in," The Cooks were the first union to organize successfully in an American university...
...years later, Joe Stefani is going on 81 years old and is in his 39th year as business agent of Local 186. He is a thickset man with a rasping voice and a hearing aid tucked behind his ear. Things aren't going so well for Stefani these days. He has a hard time getting people to come to union meetings--they say the neighborhood of the union hall is unsafe at night--but 30 years ago the meetings were jammed, while the union was coming into its own. There were even classes for shop stewards--Stefani has faded photographs...
...Harvard two new, militant shop stewards are trying to work substantial changes in the Harvard Cooks' relationship both to the University and to the local's central bureaucracy--especially Stefani, the man who has dominated the Cooks' relationship with Harvard since he scored his greatest triumph here...
...stewards are young enough, respectively, to be Stefani's son and grandson; their politics and their view of the relationship between labor leadership, management and workers are substantially different from Stefani's. The relationship between Stefani and his Harvard shop stewards was a direct adversary one for a time last fall, but now they seem to have reached an uncomfortable truce. Stefani will almost certainly be involved in negotiations this spring for a new contract between Harvard and the Cooks, but he says he will not run for re-election as business agent when his present term expires in October...