Word: huctw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout its campaign to organize Harvard's 4000 support staff, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) has focused on employee self-representation, instead of organizing around specific economic complaints. Union leaders say the particular issues pale in comparison with the broader quest for worker empowerment...
...interviews with 120 support staff members, most workers said they are not satisfied with the benefits the University gives them, and even those who do not support the union think HUCTW might be able to solve some of their problems...
...HUCTW contends that women in support staff positions at Harvard are not paid as much as men in comparable positions. Jobs traditionally held by men, in maintenance and other areas, are considered comparable to jobs held by women when the work requires a similar amount of knowledge and level of experience...
While many employees are concerned with salary inequities, the economic problem which most workers and HUCTW organizers emphasize is the pension plan...
...HUCTW had originally planned to take only one busload of supporters to the NLRB, said Kris Rondeau, HUCTW director. But when employees' enthusiasm indicated that one bus would not carry everyone who wanted to go, the union hired a second bus yesterday morning...