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...problem that can be as important to the well-being of workers as safety hazards is the matter of warning slips. Warning slips are reprimands which are supposed to be given to employees for unsatisfactory performance or rule infractions. I would like to think that they are given in order to help us correct our faults and flaws. However, there are no clear guidelines as to when a warning slip should be given, so the supervisors can easily discriminate against employees they don't like, such as shop stewards...
...good example of the misuse of warning slips is their issuance against employees who have been legitimately absent due to illness. Management has made a series of incredible statements to justify this practice. Edward Powers, director of employee relations, said last fall that "Regardless of doctors' reports employees who frequently are out...are unsatisfactory employees," to which his assistant Charles Off added, "It is an employee's responsibility to remain healthy" (Harvard Independent, Nov. 13-19, 1975). The following statement by Radcliffe manager Sweeney appears on the warning slip she issued to a woman worker who had been sick...
...students "extremely irresponsible" (The Crimson, October 28, 1975). On October 6, 1975, at a meeting between employees and management planned by me and Montville to discuss our mutual problems, Montville got mad at me for asking a series of questions pertaining to grievances. He then gave me a warning slip for "disrupting" a meeting. But if he can't tell the difference between questioning and "disrupting," that means he has no respect for the democratic rights of Harvard University employees...
...minute break just before halftime in this semester, you're down 21 zip, and all you wanna do is get into the locker room fast--maybe when you re-emerge things will be better. Or better yet, maybe they won't have a guard posted and you can slip out the back door, never to return...
Harvard academics, though, certainly fit into the plans of the busy Bolduc, who will be married in June. "I'll most likely have to make up my last year during the summers in Cambridge, but there's no way I'll let my Harvard diploma slip through my hands," he said...