Word: unionizers
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...days since Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith responded to mounting financial concerns with a freeze on staff hiring, officials of a union representing hundreds of FAS staffers have been working to meet with him to minimize the fallout from the decision...
...representative of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers—a 5800-person organization that draws about a third of its membership from FAS—said yesterday that union officials were organizing a meeting with Smith for this week, and would look to emphasize the importance of staff support to the educational mission while exploring alternative cost-cutting measures...
...It’s a good time to be in a union,” he said, before noting that in such a large institution, it would be foolish to expect to avoid firings entirely...
...There’s never been a month in my 20 years at the union where nobody got laid off at the university,” he said, referring to normal fluctuations in employment. “Saying ‘no layoffs’ is an oversimplification, so we’re going to make sure that there is as little impact as possible on our members because of this...
...December of 1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law on Poland, orchestrating a brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy Solidarity trade union movement that eventually saw some 90 people killed, and around 10,000 detained in internment camps. But as Jaruzelski and six other former top officials set out their defense in a criminal trial over their coup and crackdown, many of the former leaders of Solidarity have emerged among the general's staunchest defenders. In a bizarre twist of history, the leaders of the very movement Jaruzelski sought to crush 27 years ago now say he was right...