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Harvard United Auto Workers (UAW) Organizer Kristene Rondeau, who has been working for the last several years to get the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to ratify a Harvard clerical and technical workers union, said the University cannot ignore the importance of the Yale workers' gains...
Harvard officials make no apologies for their firm opposition--they do not think unions are necessarily best for the University. But this drive has the potential to be extremely bitter. The union, Harvard UAW, has its roots with a group of women workers in the Medical Area who began organizing prevents ago Harvard opposed that drive through two elections and several trips to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), fostering a great deal of ill will on both sides. From the start, Harvard opposed the drive on the grounds that clerical and technical workers from only one area...
Lather this month Harvard finally got what it wanted. The NLRB over turned a 1977 decision which had entitled their Medical Area workers to from their own union, forcing Harvard UAW to now organize campus-wide a much more difficult task...
Rondeau says the UAW still strongly supports the local's efforts. "We've been very pleased in the large number of people who have shown interest in helping out the union in organizing," he adds...
Although Harvard officials have said previously they would be willing to negotiate with a union representing all the clerical and technical workers, the University is not going to roll over and let Harvard UAW organize unopposed...