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Also in December, the members of the Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association, a union that represents the 265 B&G employees who are skilled tradesmen or craftsmen, voted to affiliate with a group known as the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council AFL-CIO). The Crafts Maintenance Council is not a union itself but rather a committee of craft union business agents. Under the Crafts Maintenance Council plan, the members of the BGMA would join the unions appropriate to their trades, and the committee of business agents from these unions would bargain at Harvard...
...Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association is one of the oldest company unions at Harvard. It represents most of the tradesmen -- carpenters, electricians, plumbers, groundskeepers, truck drivers, and mechanics who work for B & G. For some years these men have felt at a disadvantage in bargaining sessions with Harvard's professional negotiators. Last year they approached a number of unions with professional negotiators to seek an affiliation. In December, 1966, the BGMA-membership voted to affiliate with the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO). The vote was overwhelming; the intentions of the membership was clear...
...Indian subcontinent. Hindus, Sikhs or Moslems, the Asians are almost always aggressive businessmen. In Tanzania alone, 100,000 of them control more than 75% of the country's retail trade. Some own factories, department stores and small shops; others are just about the only carpenters, plumbers or tradesmen around; still others have become millionaires with large plantations. From the incense-reeking shops of Nairobi's bazaar street to the tiny crossroads general stores of the East African bush, the dark, sharp-featured Asians are a ubiquitous feature of the East African landscape...
...want anyone to mistake me for a janitor," one BGMA member said. Another large trade union was apparently rejected by the BGMA officers for much the same reason. This union had offered to take in all those already practicing a particular trade as masters, and take all the other tradesmen in under the classification of "helpers...
...Workers demanded that the contract, which still has a year to run, be renegotiated for some 200,000 pipe fitters, millrights and other craftsmen. The U.A.W. in sisted that such workers get a $1-an-hour wage hike, so as to put them on a par with other building tradesmen in the Detroit area. The Big Three turned the U.A.W. down cold, whereupon 1,300 workers picketed Chrysler headquarters with placards demanding "More...