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After eight years of attempting to organize Harvard's support staff, the United Auto Workers (UAW) sent employees a letter yesterday announcing its withdrawal from the union campaign...
...UAW's departure from the organizing drive clears the way for the local group that rejected UAW parentage in a bitter confrontation in 1985, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Last January HUCTW, which has been calling for the UAW to bow out since the split, affiliated with another national parent, the American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees (AFSCME...
...have decided to step aside to permit AFSCME the opportunity to organize Harvard employees," said the UAW letter. "This was not an easy decision for our union but if it results in the unionization of Harvard clerical and technical employees, then it will have been the right thing...
...really disappointed," said United Auto Workers (UAW) representative Kathy Valentovich. She added that the only reason the union voted to accept the settlement was that the workers' negotiators did not think they would gain concessions by striking longer...
Some faculty members have been rallying in support of the workers, said Walter I. Cohen, professor of comparative literature and the unofficial leader of the faculty movement to support the union. Cohen said faculty members are working to circulate a petition supporting UAW's demands, and are also trying to raise money to help support striking workers...