Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After eight years of attempting to organize Harvard's support staff, the United Auto Workers (UAW) sent employees a letter yesterday announcing its withdrawal from the union campaign...
...union, which has been the clear underdog in campus support since it broke with HUCTW, left the door open for its return. "If after a year [AFSCME] has been unable to win representation rights for Harvard employees, then the UAW will again respond to any requests to organize from Harvard employees," said the UAW letter...
Last May HUCTW garnered the support of the seven other unions at Harvard, in part to isolate the UAW. The other unions, which represent groups including the University's facilities maintenance workers, police and dining hall staff, joined HUCTW in the first-ever alliance of unions at Harvard...
There had been doubts as to whether the UAW,which primarily represents a male, blue-collarconstituency, could adequately serve Harvard'smostly female support staff. About half ofAFSCME's 1.2 million members are women and theinternational union has pushed for nationalattention to pay equity and child care...
When the UAW first banded with HUCTW in 1979,the organizing effort was based in the MedicalSchool Area. In an election called by the UAW in1981, the union lost by a slim margin, gaining 47percent of the workers' support...