Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Solidarity movement that rocked Poland in the early '80s. China's leaders had been fretting about the similarities between the student movement and the Solidarity campaign. Tellingly, when officials ordered arrests last week, three of the 14 people who were briefly detained were members of a new, unauthorized union...
...overwhelming majorities, the Undergraduate Council calls on the final clubs to admit women and on Harvard to stop contesting the spring union election of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers. Both resolutions signal the political birth of the council...
About 70 demonstrators--mostly members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers [HUCTW] and other sympathetic unions--demanded at the noon rally that Stone cut the University's ties with the mining company by resigning his post either at Harvard or at Pittston. Stone is one of seven members of the Corporation, which owns all Harvard property and which is responsible for University policy decisions...
...Other unions involved in the rally included the AFL-CIO and Local 26, the Harvard dining hall workers' union. Representatives of both those groups and HUCTW said their organizations would continue to lend support to efforts against Stone...
...president of the United Steel Workers union, Lynn Williams--father of a member of the Class of '89--also added his voice to the protest. As he entered the Yard with his wife and son, he joined the demonstrators, and later gave an impromptu speech...