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Alan Balsam, a shop steward in the dining hall workers' union, local 26 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association, called the new contract "the richest that has been offered to a union in the history of Harvard University...
President Bok has named Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change, to steward the research institute as acting director at the start of a year when, for the first time, the tide seems to have turned toward peace and quiet...
...with clipboards and tablets walk into the gas tanks department. Within minutes, a hand signal is given by the shop steward. The workers stop and line up against the wall until the interlopers can be identified. They prove to be not inspectors but sewerage contractors, and the machines start up again...
...offered a clerical job for the magnificent sum of $8 a week. Well, I went to Rubery Owen as a spot welder and became involved with the union. The people in the department must have seen something in me they wanted, 'cause they elected me shop steward, as green as the grass...
Says Peach: "In those days, anybody was taking his life in his hands when he identified himself as a shop steward at Rubery Owen. They have got to live with us now, but then they could still fire the steward. I knew them to close a whole section to get the man in that section they wanted. I started out with only about 300 members, but by 1958 Rubery Owen was really bottled up by one union or another. Many a time I stood under the clock and told management they had until noon to settle with...