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Fenstermacher, a longtime advocate of opening the union??€™s negotiations process, says he wanted to get himself and his fellow HUCTW members involved in the proceedings right away. He took immediate action, he says, urging friends and colleagues in the union to organize in preparation for the negotiations...
...calls for representation fell on largely deaf ears, he says, so when he was approached by the No Layoffs Campaign, a group of about 20 Cambridge-area activists and workers who had been trying to reform the union??€™s policy of closed negotiations since the late 1980s, he jumped at the chance to join them...
...October, Fenstermacher was running for the union??€™s executive board on the platform of the No Layoffs Campaign. He started attending regular meetings and participating in their demonstrations, but before long, he grew wary of the No Layoffs Campaign’s roots in the Harvard Socialist Alternative, which has ties to the Committee for Workers International. According to Fenstermacher, many of the campaign’s participants are also members of Socialist Alternative...
Potter, who is also involved in the informal HUCTW reform group, points to the sit-in as an example of the union??€™s insufficient dedication...
Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), said he wants to refocus the union??€™s energies on improving the daily working lives of the Harvard staff and employee-supervisor relations by training managers to approach workers with “more equality and humanity...