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Workers rejected a unionization offer from a local United Auto Workers (UAW) chapter in a close vote last April. The controversial election was marked by charges that Harvard threatened workers' jobs shortly before they cast their ballots...
...national average, but they are gradually climbing upward. Georgia (6.8%) and Florida (7.7%) are relatively well off, but other Southern states have already surpassed the national rate: the figure is 10.2% in Arkansas and 10.4% in Tennessee. "We can't see any bright side," says Gene Keenum, a UAW union official in Memphis. "Everywhere we look, they're cutting back." The picture is totally different in booming Texas, where the rate is 4.5%. Says Terence Traviand of the Texas Employment Commission: "There is no sense of crisis here...
WHEN UNITED Auto Worker president Douglas A. Fraser came to Harvard to deliver a speech in April 1980, he took five minutes beforehand to huddle with the organizing committee of District 65, which had just become affiliated with UAW. Wearing a brown pinstriped suit, Fraser told the organizers, "It's been my experience that if you lose the first time, you can get them the second." He was then whisked away to address about 150 people at the School of Public Health--with which he was involved as a visiting committee member...
...United Auto Worker (UAW) affiliate that has tried to unionize 850 Medical Area clerical and technical personnel for seven years announced earlier this month that it will initiate a similar campaign on Harvard's main campus-the most ambitious unionizing effort in the University's history...
District 65 of the UAW has still not managed to organize staff in the Medical Area, having lost its second representation election, 390-328, last April. But a recent decision submitted by a regional hearing officer of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has given District 65 a chance at another Medical Area election...