Word: unioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jaeger echoed this perception of the five-yearbenefits stand-off as a product of particularlytough issues. "The benefits battle was long andugly, and took different union and Universityleaders away from things they wanted to work on,"he says...
...source close to the union says thedisagreement over benefits was politicallymotivated...
...group of administrators decided to dosomething a few years ago, where they were tryingto control costs, but also to score a victory fortough management over the union," the source says...
...University fought bitterly against theunion's formation in 1988, spending over $500,000on an anti-union campaign. Harvard blanketed thecampus with leaflets suggesting that unionizingwould bring in outsiders who would impose theiragendas on Harvard workers...
Once workers voted to form the union by arazor-thin margin, the University appealed thereferendum's legitimacy to the National LaborRelations Board in a move union officials calledsour grapes...