Word: unionizers
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While the outcome of the first contract negotiations between the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and the University are anxiously awaited, labor experts and union organizers point to the organization of the contract negotiating process as yet another area in which the support staff union has created a new model for the labor movement...
After a long organizing campaign which polarized the clerical workers and engendered animosity between the pro-union employees and Harvard's administration, the contract talks--which will likely set the tone of future labor relations on campus--have been characterized by all involved as "friendly...
...Union organizers and administrators attribute this shift in attitude to the earliest part of the contract negotiations...
Rather than move immediately into specific negotiations, HUCTW leader Kris Rondeau says she set up "transition meetings" to iron out any leftover animosities from the long and often bitter campaign and to "give the administration and union supporters an opportunity to understand where everyone is coming from...
Some students have criticized the plan, saying the University should instead create an independent student center separate from dining facilities. They have suggested such sites as the A. Lawrence Lowell Lecture Hall near the Science Center and the former Gulf station site near the Union...