Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including language in the plan casting doubt upon the legitimacy of all insurgent movements in the region, Arias won El Salvador's support...
...University's excellence as an employer has come under question in recent years. This issue moved to the forefront this spring as the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) waged an all-out campaign to organize the University's nearly 4000 support staff workers. HUCTW won by a narrow margin, but pending an investigation of alleged unfair campaign tactics, the future of collective bargaining remains uncertain for Harvard's clerical staff...
...issue of Harvard's role as an employer does not touch only support staff. Junior professors, who number about 400 in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, must cope with salaries too small to accommodate Cambridge's high cost of living, jobs that rarely lead to tenure and heavy teaching loads. Junior faculty members say their transient lives often leave them feeling detached from the Harvard community. The administration has begun to show concern for its junior professors, as Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence this week issued his second report on the subject...
...ruling by the NLRB on any of these mechanical questions can cast a long shadow. When the board ruled in 1984 that a union could not organize support staff in one area, but must expand its campaign to include the 3300 workers throughout the University, it meant a four-year delay until the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) could petition for a referendum...
...addition, according to the union, the process of appearing before the NLRB--no matter what the outcome--can be detrimental because of the delay. The longer it takes to resolve an appeal, the more it jeopardizes the union's base of support--which dissipates with time. The union and the University spent more than a year before the board in arguments that led to the 1984 decision...