Word: unionism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Union members will meet with Harvard’s Labor and Employee Relations Director William Murphy this morning to discuss the possibility of extending Harvard’s health care plans to the security guards...
Meanwhile, the union will urge Securitas to help defray the rising cost of health premiums, Gulish said...
Arun Malik, a security guard in Mather House and a steward for the union, told The Crimson last week that if faced with higher costs, over half of Harvard’s security guards may be forced to opt out of their health coverage through Securitas and rely either on their spouses’ insurance or forgo a health plan altogether...
While the union continues to push for lower health insurance costs, SLAM has been in touch with Gulish and the security staff to publicize their efforts, according to SLAM member Lucas M.F. Giveen...
...years of complicity and ineptitude by GM management and the United Auto Workers (UAW), it's more like disintegration. The UAW organized both GM and Chrysler in early 1937 - Henry Ford famously held out four more years. For decades, particularly under the leadership of Walter Reuther, who headed the union from 1946 until his death in 1970, it was able to win concessions from the automakers, bringing its members into the middle class. As long as demand for autos grew in the post-WW II halcyon days, relations between the unions and the automakers were basically quiescent...