Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UAW, however, said the local staff left their positions for no obvious reason...
...split came primarily over disagreements over the grass roots organizing stlye favored by Rondeau as opposed to a more rapid proceedure favored by the UAW. Rondeau said her staff had attempted to build an internal organization within Harvard and to work on a "personal basis with Harvard employees." She argued that the UAW was pushing too hard and had not established a solid local foundation...
Despite the split, both the UAW and the new organization say they will continue activities and both deny they are in competition with eachother. Student activists who will begin meetings this fall to inform students about the union drive have pledged support for the new union...
...guess I'm having trouble dealing with the concept of two unions," says Barbara D. Rahke, an organizer for the UAW. Rahke, who helped organize Boston University clerical and technical employees into a union that was ratified in 1978, however, says the new union will face problems. For example, the newly formed Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers will not have the funding, collective bargaining expertise and prestige of the UAW behind them, says Rahke...
...being part of the larger organization you get so much from it. When you say 'UAW', your employer knows what that's all about," says Rahke...