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Sherman. L. Holcombe, a week and shop steward at Radcliffe for local 186 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association said. "I refuse to let them put this mark against my record...
Sherman L. Holcombe, the shop steward of the Radcliffe dining halls, has another hearing on Tuesday with Personnel Office officials to discuss further a suspension he received last month...
...complex story, so far, is this: Holcombe was suspended after his supervisors said he was taking unauthorized time off work and violating other rules; Holcombe said he was simply doing his job as shop steward...
Holcombe was elected shop steward in December largely because, he says, of grievances he had raised the month before: he had charged in a four-page statement he circulated and gave to management that two of his supervisors "feel within their right to disregard the human rights of employees." He continued: "I have gone out of my way to be consistent, bumble and of good service to the Harvard Dining Halls. So I fail to understand why I deserve such harsh treatment...
...after talking to him she went back in the office and came out and said I was suspended." Holcombe got an unpaid suspension for the rest of that day and the following three working days--a suspension he says is a direct result of his being an active shop steward...