Word: supportively
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Safety is perennially a concern for Harvard employees, but it recently came to the fore when the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) effectively used the issue in its campaign to unionize Harvard's support staff...
...symposium, which addressed controversies on Harvard's campus, Rondeau urged union supporters to write or call President Bok and ask the University to withdraw the charges of unfair labor practice that it has filed against the union. The University hopes to overturn the results of a May 17th election, in which support staff workers voted 1530-1486 in favor of HUCTW. Harvard claims that union organizers threatened and coerced staff on the day of the election...
Rondeau has worked to organize Harvard's support staff for 17 years in defiance of the administration's wishes...
Only 25 people attended the symposium, which addressed Harvard's reluctance to divest, the recently elected support staff union and student activism on campus. The other speakers were Peter H. Wood '64, a pro-divestment member of the Board of Overseers, Rosa Ehrenreich '91, a student activist who volunteered for HUCTW and Professor of Biology William H. Bossert '59, Lowell House master...
Bossert did not address the issues discussed by the other panelists, saying he considered the issues of divestment and support staff unionization "less relevant" than the issues such as the falsification of research data, the interruption of free speech and student agitation about faculty hiring...