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...biggest unions at Harvard is the 200 member Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association (BGMA), which includes most of B&G's employees with the exception of janitors, maids, students, and unskilled help. The Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association is an independent union, unaffiliated with any outside group like the AFLCIO and it exists only at Harvard. Twenty-five years ago Harvard had only one labor union, the Harvard Employees Representative Association. The craftsmen -- carpenters, plumbers, painters, truck drivers, and electricians -- who believed they were inadequately represented by the allinclusive union, created the BGMA to bargain exclusively for their interests...
...rare display of unity, the AFLCIO International Longshoremen's Association joined with ship owners and the federal government in an effort to get the dockers back to work...
...recent AFLCIO national convention, New York's Gov. Rockefeller, a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination along with Goldwater, announced his opposition to the right-to-work laws
Pickets from the NAACP, CORE, the American Veterans Committee, the Unitarian-Universalists, and the State AFLCIO filed around the hotel carrying placards protesting the rally. Violence erupted on the picket line when a Polish refugee tried to burn a Communist flag on the sidewalk, causing a scuffle. The refugee, Joseph Mlot Mroz, president of the Anti-Communist Federation of Polish Freedom Fighters, was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace...