Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Teachers' Union Report cannot be regarded as a divinely inspired panacea, at least two of its suggestions--fixed security of tenure for younger instructors and increased competition in the upper ranks--will go far toward alleviating many problems that now face the profession. In addition to decreasing inter-faculty friction, these proposals will contribute to the improvement of the quality both of Harvard's teaching and of its research...
...time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department; for the former would know more surely where they stood, and the latter might avoid in the future such embarrassments...
Possibility that the University will be forced to make concessions to the A.F. of L. cooks and waitresses rather than risk the embarrassment of a strike in all the dining halls appeared strong last night after a conferences between College officers and union executives...
...meantime University Hall officials maintained complete silence on the questions, refusing either to clarify the employer's position or comment on the validity of the Union's claims. Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, who yesterday met with Stefani behind closed doors, announced: "At the moment the University has nothing...
...cooks and waitresses pay the union 75 cents a month and want their money's worth. For this reason labor representatives have not stopped at a reasonable agreement. Their current demands not only ask for what amounts to a 50 percent wage increase over the 1937 level, but also attacks the University's cherished pension plan and its aversion to a closed shop. True to the history of American labor, the locals are taking a mile. Or trying...