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Kristine A. Rondeau, a United Auto Workers (UAW) organizer, says the singing group's name--which refers to glass tubes used in science laboritories--derives from a drive more than four years ago to organize Harvard medical area clerical and technical workers into a labor union...
...that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election, the workers voted 390-328 against unionization. UAW filed charges with NLRB charging Harvard with union-busting activities after administrators announced a 12 percent wage increase and sent literature to employees' homes urging them to vote against the union...
Four years later, UAW is back. The eight full-time-officials and other clerical and technical workers organizing throughout the University say they expect another NLRB election next year. This time, however, all 3,600 employees--about 80 percent are women--will vote. UAW says a University-wide union satisfies Harvard's claim during previous elections in 1977 and 1981 that medical area employees did not constitute a separate bargaining unit...
...year-old Rondeau says UAW has not yet spoken to 25 percent of the affected workforce, but before the election she promises that UAW will "build every bridge and relationship to keep [themselves] from being bought off by the University." Rondeau and UAW officials have held lunchtime talks throughout the year for workers on issues ranging from comparable worth to the rise of computers in the workplace. Later this month they will stage a musical comedy in Memorial Hall entitled "Cambridge, Cambridge" and will publish an art journal beginning this summer. This fall, the union organizer says Harvard students...
Steiner says a Harvard secretary makes, on average, between $16,000 to 16,500 per year, while UAW organizers hedge, saying that figure is closer to $15,000--which is about $1,500 more than a Yale secretary made before the strike. The job turnover rate is also under dispute. Steiner says 23 percent of clerical and technical jobs change hands annually. UAW says that rate is over 50 percent...