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...Radcliffe, the University's dining hall management came up with the idea of putting little name tags on our uniforms. The supervisors went around asking the workers what names or nicknames they wanted on the tags. When they came to me, I said I wanted the name "shop steward" printed on my tag, since that's what I was. This they refused to do, explaining that was not at all the type of thing they meant...
This year, in my capacity as shop steward, I have presented several safety grievances to the managers of Radcliffe dining halls. In September, I presented a grievance to assistant manager Richard Montville about the practice of carrying 50-75 pounds of meat and food-stuffs from house to house in workers' arms or on their shoulders or backs. Montville agreed that this was indeed a safety hazard. He promised to provide a car or delivery truck and also two-wheelers for workers to use and to see to it that workers did not endanger their safety by carrying heavy items...
Many people ask, "Why has Sherman Holcombe become so hated and abused by the management? What about the other stewards, aren't they doing their job, too?" To this I answer, yes, they are, in fact many of them also have been hit with foolish warnings. But for the past year and a half that I've been a shop steward, I have been raising an issue that the University is especially anxious to keep swept under the carpet. I am speaking of the grievances I have raised about the non-posting of job opportunities. I believe it is mainly...
Sherman Holcombe, former shop steward of the Radcliffe dining halls, is back to work after a month's leave following his suspension in February. He's no longer a shop steward, but a worker in the Freshman Union. And he's happy, he said yesterday...
...works at Logan, said that his job there was "to guard the stewardesses," and he winked. Then more soberly he said that most stewardesses are respectable married women and that "only 25 per cent or so are quote unquote The Stewardesses." Charlie would like to be a steward for Delta, but he said he is not sexy enough...