Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those days it was common for Harvard students to go down to the Medical School area, not to study but to organize. The tenants of Harvard on of the largest landowners in the area--were forming a bargaining unit. This unit, the Roxbury tenants of Harvard, was created to negotiate with less provide low income housing in which to relocate tenants displaced by hospital expansion...
After lengthy negotiations with Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH), Harvard's recognized bargaining unit for the community, to provide housing in exchange for the building of the power plant, the University went ahead with plans to get Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) approval for the project. MASCO needed this approval so it could take advantage of a state law which aids developers of "blighted" land in urban renewal areas. This law makes the developer eligible for tax-exempt building if the applicant can prove to the BRA board that the land is blighted and will be benefited by renewal. In return...
...THEN everything exploded. At a June public hearing to get community input on the project, residents of Mission Hill (acting outside their Harvard approved bargaining unit) erupted in anger, stopping the meeting before it ever got started, vowing to kill the plant project even if they too, not surprisingly. They still had hops for their own power plant. They cited flaws in the environmental study...
...Telegram (combined circ. 151,000). The strikebreakers are not permitted to join the Guild as long as the original strike continues, so this year they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to have their own group, Employees for Better Working Conditions, designated as the paper's sole bargaining unit. An NLRB election last month was Abruptly canceled when the Guild withdrew from the running. Says Guild Spokesman Dick Pattison: "It didn't make much sense for us to be on the ballot when the only ones voting would be the strikebreakers...
...unit mixed-income housing project that Harvard has provided land for in the Mission Hill area received heavy community support Tuesday night at a Boston Redevelopment Authority Board meeting held in the area...