Word: uaw
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...union--District 65, which is now part of the United Auto Workers (UAW)--had been organizing clerical and technical employees in the Harvard Medical Area since 1974. But, failed union elections, Harvard anti-union campaigns, and high job turnover rates have blocked the establishment of a University clerical and technical union...
...latest chapter in the 10-year effort unfolded over the last three weeks. The organizers of the union who have been employed by the UAW, severed their ties with the national union...
...seven-member paid staff, who claimed they were fired by the UAW when leadership split over organizing strategies, have in the meantime formed a new union, called the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers...
...survey to clerical and technical workers querying attitudes on issues like wages, sexual harrassment and Massachusetts Hall administrators. Harvard officials say the poll was an effort to improve working conditions, but union organizers quickly called it a tool to test the degree of their activity among workers. A chief UAW beef is the absence of a dental plan, a benefit that Steiner has said is on its way in the near future...
Columbia University clerical workers finally gained NLRB-recognition in February. The 1,000 employees had voted in favor of UAW District 65 two years beforehand, but Columbia, questioning the election's legitimacy, appealed the election to the NLRB. Legal skirmishes persisted for more than a year, but the controversy came to head when the union threatened to strike unless the university recognized...