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Last May, when the union won, Harvard appealed the vote. The administration said it wanted to make sure that the election was run fairly...
Paul Pierson, instructor in Government, believes one reason for the reversal in attitude is the shift in swing voters over the last 25 years. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson believed he needed the Black vote in order to win re-election. His War on Poverty represented, at least in part, an attempt to appeal to this crucial constituency...
Today, Blacks are firm supporters of the Democratic party. So are most poor Americans. The crucial swing vote now comes from the Reagan Democrats. This group dictates the terms of the policy debate; this group also refuses to listen to any discussion of poverty...
...biggest accusation the staff throws about is that a legal appeal would be union-busting. Funny, no Pinkerton detectives have been spotted with billy-clubs attacking employees streaming out of Holyoke Center. With the vote so close--it was decided by 44 votes out of 3400--Harvard has a responsibility to pursue another election if it questions the validity of the first one. And if the union is so confident of its mandate, then it should not fear a second vote anyway...
Harmatz, said that the University's charges were insufficient to overturn a vote, and that its witnesses did not support the charges they made...