Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local Gore campaign director Burton Drucker had said Gore could win support among conservative Democrats if the campaign had allocated resources to Arizona...
...17th, the 3700 support staff will decide whether they support the union and the message. HUCTW has addressed the concerns of workers--from benefits to child care--and gone beyond the issues of the day by representing a theme that will serve workers in the future. For that reason workers should vote to elect HUCTW as their official representative...
...women employees backed by the national, male-dominated United Aouto Workers union to the present group of employees sponsored by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a 1.1 million member union representing mainly government employees. HUCTW is now in an incarnation best suited to the support staff's needs...
Administrators say that the workers do not need a union because Harvard is a good employer. But many workers do not agree, and the high rate of turnover--an average of 26 percent each year--is one indication that not all support staff are satisfied. Many employees say that the reason their co-workers have left, and the reason they consider leaving, is because Harvard is not the kind of workplace that will address their long-term career expectations, such as career advancement, higher salaries, better pensions, more complete health benefits and affordable child care. A union would bargain with...
...position of women in the campus governing structure is something that the administration has been slow and hesitant to address. Women compose only a small percentage of the administration and 7 percent of the faculty. But HUCTW, run mostly by women organizers, would represent a support staff composed of 80 percent women. Women's issues and women's representation on campus would have a strong and organized voice if HUCTW were to win the election. And campus child care, which costs an average support staff member half her salary, would have a forceful advocate...