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Alan Balsam, general shop steward for the Harvard dining hall workers, said last night the student groups' endorsement is "helpful" and "indicates that the entire Harvard community is watching this case...
...extends health and safety regulation to all enterprises with five or more employees and strengthens the position of the union safety steward elected by the employees. The employer now has the burden of proof in a dispute about dangerous working conditions, enabling the safety steward to stop production he considers dangerous pending a judgement from the state safety inspector. The employer must also provide information called for by the safety steward or safety committee in larger plants including plans for proposed changes in plant layout and equipment. Such changes can then be held up in the interest of health...
...worked over travel and protocol details that now pack a book two inches thick. The imperial couple will have plenty of help keeping to the schedule. They will be trailed by a retinue of 22, headed by Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda and including the imperial household's grand steward, grand chamberlain, grand master of cerermonies and a covey of ladies in waiting...
Most of the credit for the contract is going to Alan Balsam, a young shop steward in the Winthrop House dining hall who organized the then non-union Brandeis kitchens before he came to Harvard...
Balsam and Sherman L. Holcombe, another union shop steward, both stressed the need for continued union activity among workers. "We can't be so satisfied with ourselves that we let things go back to the way they used to be," Holcombe said...