Word: union
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...Europe outgrows its postwar political arrangements, the Soviet Union experiments with captialism, and Japan becomes a major international actor, a Harvard education remains constricted to a few city blocks in Cambridge. What a shame. The time has come for Harvard to discard its Cambridge-o-centric academic arrogance and let its students create a more international experience for themselves...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) voted last Thursday to approve its bylaws, opening the way for elections to be held later this fall, union organizer Marie Manna said yesterday...
More than 900 of the 1600 support staff members who have officially joined the union turned out for the vote. Of those 900 an "overwhelming" 94 percent voted to approve the bylaws, Manna said...
...nomination process for approximately 250 elected positions will begin next week. Union members will have the opportunity to serve on the executive board, on 25 "joint councils" across campus, as campus-wide officers and as representatives to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), HUCTW's parent union...
Although the union has yet to finalize the formal language of its contract with the University, Manna said she is generally pleased with the progress of the negotiations and expects them to conclude "within the next few weeks...