Records of the Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association, 1964-1967.

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Records of the Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association, 1964-1967.

Contains meeting notices, an open letter to the President of Harvard University (1967), and a flyer regarding the commencement strike distributed by Students for a Democratic Society (1967).

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard University. Dept. of Buildings and Grounds.

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Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association (Harvard University)

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The Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association was an independent union of Harvard employees in the Buildings and Grounds Department and was set up circa 1947. In December 1966 the Association voted to affiliate with a group known as the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council, a committee of craft union business agents. However, the University refused to recognize the Council as the bargaining agent for the Association, claiming that the Association was represented by Building Services Employees I...