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...LUNCH-HOUR walkout staged last week by members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union brought to the fore a number of issues which have clouded Harvard's labor relations picture all year. There was obviously more at stake in this walkout than the serving of hamburgers; this fact has been especially borne out by the manner in which the University is treating the walkout and those who participated...
...Glass case remains unresolved, but the University community has been informed that an investigation of the matter is taking place--under the direction of none other than Buford Simpson. In fact, Simpson is also investigating last Monday's walkout. Simpson, who epitomizes the institutional racism which exists at Harvard, is being called upon to conduct an investigation the results of which are to be considered valid by both sides of the dispute. The investigation will, no doubt, be followed by professions of faith in Simpson by both Edward Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, and Frank Weissbecker, director...
...handling of the walkout again calls into question the validity of the University's highly-touted internal investigatory process. Workers, confronted with the perverse turns which this process has taken--in the Holcombe, Trudel and Glass Gases--cannot here be expected to trust its impartiality...
...University has only proven the validity of grievances continually voiced by the workers this year by isolating and intimidating witnesses to various actions connected with the walkout, by threatening individual workers with reprisals, and by attempting to divide the union by praising those who refused to honor the walkout. An extreme case of University intimidation is that of Sylvia Gallagher, a worker in the College Dining Hall who left Eliot House last Monday to inform Adams House workers of the walkout. Gallagher has apparently been threatened with punishment by the University for her role in the walkout; she was also...
...resign, or at least be removed from his current managerial role; his actions in the Glass case and in the current case should be investigated by an impartial third party unconnected to the Food Services or the Personnel Office. All threats of punishment against workers who participated in the walkout last week should be made public and retracted with a complete apology. Frank Weissbecker should remove himself from an investigatory role in this and other cases involving kitchen workers. Powers must withdraw his blind support of managers without regard to their treatment of workers...