Word: ofunion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it came to the all-important question ofUnion food, Turner had a left-handed complimentfor the Harvard Dinning Services...
Harkin enters the ballroom to the cheers ofunion members and the flashes of pocket cameras,shakes hands, waves, sits down to dinner. Theunion leader goes to the podium and starts theintroduction just as the Chicken Kiev is beingserved. This is bad timing, because Harkin willstart speaking to the clinking of silverware,people will stop eating out of politeness, and thechicken and potatoes will grow cold and be leftuneaten...
According to labor experts and Universityofficials, the creation of these local networkswas one of the most significant provisions of theunion contract. Because they modeled the union noton a conflict-oriented relationship with theUniversity, but on a non-hierarchical cooperativeone, they broke with the traditional model ofunion-management relations. And at the time,neither the union nor the University anticipatedthat these committees would incur any significantcosts...