Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GARBAGE barges, hypodermic needles, toxic waste and other pollutants washing up on American shores have filled the nation's consciousness with a frightening vision of the earth's future. What can our community can do on a smaller scale to combat these environmental threats? The College's recent support of small-scale student recycling effort is a start...
HUCTW organized the support staff using 18 full-time organizers, most of whom had been University employees, who spent each day moving around campus, talking to support staff. They distributed almost no printed literature, but relied instead on the one-on-one meetings to recruit supporters...
...member HUCTW will become the largest union in private higher education. In addition, it is the latest successful organizing drive to capitalize on the unique concerns of a "pink-collar" workforce, like Harvard's quasi-professional, mostly female support staff...
HUCTW appealed to the University's workers through one-on-one meetings where organizers stressed issues of workplace democracy and the particular concerns of an 83 percent female support staff...
Somers said that other university support staff may look to HUCTW as a model, just as organizers here used the Yale support staff union as an example of a successful campaign. Experts said HUCTW's victory will reinforce the example set by Yale...