Word: uaw
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...UAW has decided to leave Harvard, the drive to organize the University's clerical and technical staff can go on under the aegis of a single group--the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Instead of two unions competing for the allegiance of University employees, there is one. This should make it dramatically easier for organizers to win the majority support necessary for the union to gain recognition at Harvard's bargaining table...
What's remarkable about the United Auto Workers' decision to pull out is just how long it was in coming. The UAW has not had any significant support base at Harvard since the HUCTW split from its ranks to form an independent union two years ago. While the mostly volunteer HUCTW organizers have been holding frequent meetings with employees, the all-paid UAW staffers have been largely invisible...
HUCTW backers have criticized the UAW forstaying at Harvard after the local effort rejectedit two years ago. The split was caused by adifference in organizing philosophy--HUCTW leaderssaid the UAW's national organization was musclingin on what should have been a mainly grassrootsdrive. When the UAW locked HUCTW leaders out ofthe organizing office, their six year affiliationended...
...UAW leaders had pledged to stay in the battleuntil the union election, which is expected thisspring. A union must call an election and win thesupport of a majority of workers to gain formalrecognition as a bargaining unit, according tofederal...
...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