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They just took off their overalls, picked up their lunch boxes and headed out the door. For the next ten days, 57 members of Local 877 of the International Union of Operating Engineers stood outside the giant Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP). When it got really cold, the engineers and operators huddled in one of their co-worker's cars with the heat going full blast. But when they were needed--to picket the entrance where the pipe fitters went in or to convince the Teamsters not to deliver oil to the plant--they forgot about the cold...
...specifics of the contract aren't really that important. For the people in Holyoke Center familiar with the project, the whole dispute was just another chapter in the long, frustrating history of MATEP. From the beginning, the idea had been a disaster, the project cursed and damned. The first administrative vice president to take charge of the project had hired an incompetent consulting firm--and Harvard had been forced to dump both of them. The power plant, at a cost of more than $230 million, was already the single most expensive project ever undertaken by any university--and Harvard...
Wyatt declined to say specifically that form the new company would take, saying the University decided to consider establishing the firm at the request of lawyers for MATEP users...
Attorneys for trustees of the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Deaconess Hospital, two MATEP users, were unavailable for comment yesterday...
Wyatt denied those charges, saying that the proposal to establish a new company was aimed at avoiding any conflict of interest among people who serve both as trustees of the hospitals--MATEP users--and members of the MASCO board...