Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect it to be democratic?" asked the University administrator who oversees relations with labor, Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott. Yes, we did, and with good reason. The union premised its entire organizing drive on inclusion--meeting one-on-one with workers and urging all staff to voice their concerns. Union organizers said the main goal of having a union at Harvard was not to raise worker salaries or boost worker benefits, but to give workers a powerful voice in decision-making...
...workers must be allowed to participate in future contract talkes to ensure that the the contract fairly represents everyone, not just the most active participants in the union. The only way for HUCTW to stay true to its professed aims is to include very worker, every step along...
...staff position doesn't acknowledge that there is a distinction--organizationally, philosophically and legally--between a worker and a union member. Once you recognize this difference, it becomes clear why "only certain workers" at Harvard could vote for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) transition team: only certain workers had decided to join the union...
...idea that someone who opposes the very idea of a union should choose who meets with the University to discuss ways to ensure harmony between HUCTW and Harvard is counterintuitive: the worker who opposes the union shouldn't care, and the union doesn't need advice on this matter from those who are not sympathetic to its very existence. Every club, from the Boy Scouts to the Democratic Party, has a rule for making internal decisions: each member, one vote. To stray from that rule would be organizational suicide...
...resignation follows an unrelated incident in which an assistant football coach was accused of encouraging anti-gay harrassment of a dining hall worker. The worker, who was kissed by another male worker while he was preparing food, subsequently received a "homophobic" note...