Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While SDS marches through the Yard, the "painter's helpers" issue is actually being decided elsewhere-in quiet negotiations between the University and the union which represents its Buildings-and-Grounds workers...
...some months, Harvard and the union have been trying to work out more definite procedures for the training and promotion of Harvard's maintenance workers. Yesterday, both sides said some progress had been made in the negotiations, and that the contract which will replace the one expiring in December may contain new provisions on these issue...
...helpers issue has been simmering ever since the Metropolitan Boston and Vicinity Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO) became the bargaining agent for Harvard's maintenance workers in 1967. Donn Berry, secretary-treasurer of the union, said yesterday that he approached Harvard several times about the issues from 1967 on, and that, six months ago, the University agreed to begin talks on the problem...
...brought by the Radcliffe subcommittee of the Harvard-Radcliffe SDS Campus-Worker-Student Alliance Committee with respect to conditions in the Radcliffe kitchens, I should like to make two comments. First, the College will, of course, carry on all wage and other negotiations through the Building Services Employees International Union, AFLCIO Local 254, as requested by the kitchen workers. It would be illegal as well as undesirable to negotiate with any othergroup. Second, we welcome reports of apparent inequities and suggestions as to possible improvements in working conditions from any concerned individuals and groups, including...
...Throughout his remarks, Deutsch emphasized the importance of developing social science to control expanding technology. He compared the governments of the Soviet Union and the United States to the drivers of runaway cars Neither of these big industrial powers understands its own workings, and both must have greater insight to construct intelligent polices, he said...