Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...District 65 affiliates with the United Auto Workers (UAW...
...UAW said it was interested in organizing the employees, but the biggest effect of its presence here has been to confuse the campaign for unionization. Nothing can be more effective in stopping unionization at Harvard than divisions among the organizers themselves. Instead of pulling out when it became clear that the HUCTW was making inroads, the UAW stubbornly remained...
...UAW's obstinance became all the more clear after the grassroots HUCTW affiliated with American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) last year. Any claim the UAW could have made to better resources and funding disappeared with the HUCTW-AFSCME alliance...
...battle resolved itself into a needless power struggle not over unionization, but over prestige. It finally took negotiations between the presidents of the two unions last week to get the UAW out of Cambridge...
...unfortunate that the drive for unionization has been marred by so much infighting. And while the organizing effort is likely to go on well into next year, the long overdue departure of the UAW will remove a key obstacle. Harvard's 4000 secretaries and lab assistants deserve a union. Hopefully, the HUCTW will now be able to marshall the support to represent them...