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Held Custodians to File Lawsuit THETu Friday, Februarys 27,1998 DAILYVolume XXXVI, Number 28 I \Where You Read It First Asian Custodians to file lawsuit On-campus announcement planned for Monday economic b; BRAD SNYDER affeckd older workers protected by age discrimha- 0. Daily Editorial Board tion laws. More than 50 of the former custodians are University officials may have more than their over 40 years of age, said Warren. crisis lunch to digest this Monday afternoon. In the large Joseph said some of the older workers were not conference room of the campus center, the Univer- permitted to apply for new University positions sity will be served some serious food for thought: a because oftheir age. That would be another violation meeting lawsuit. of the custodians’ rights, Joseph said. - Former custodians, who were employed by Copies of the lawsuit will be distributed in the UNICCOto work on the Tufts campus, will officially campus center on Monday, said Joseph, and local held announce a lawsuit against the University alleging television stations have been invited. While a legal that Tufts was responsible for their removal from battle appears inevitable, Joseph said the support byMIcHAELLEUNG campus last summer. The lawsuit alsonamesUNICC0, committee hopes the University will agree to media- Contributing Writer ISS, andthe workers’union, Local254 ofthe Services tion. A panel comprising Tufts ad- Employees InternationalUnion (SEIU). “We always hoped to settle this through media- ministration and faculty convened Daily file photo “Tufts is primarily responsible for what happened tion,” said Joseph. “The custodians’ lawsuit is a last yesterday in a private meeting to Bill Eastwd to them,” said Robert Warren, attorney for the work- resort.” discuss the financial situation of ers. “Tufts can’t hide under the fact that they’ve Unfair labor charges have been filed against Local international students, but they Tufts undergraduate and Fletcher subcontracted to another company.” 254, ISS, andUNICCO. Thecustodians allege thatthe require the co-signature of a US School students from Asia. This The lawsuit, said Warren, assertsthat the Univer- union and the two cleaning service companies vio- citizen. Director ofthe Office of was the latest in an ongoing effort sity played an active role in the custodians’ removal lated federal labor law during a summercontract vote. to assist students ‘from Thailand, Financial Aid Bill Eastwood ad- and in policing a contract vote between their union “We filed these actions because we hadno hrther Korea, Indonesia, and Malaysia vised that students try search- and the incomingcleaning company, ISS. The custo- recourse after the employers and our union betrayed with financial difficultiesbrought ing the Internet for privately- dians are seeking to gain back their jobs and the the custodians,” said former union steward Joann about by the economic crisis in funded scholarships that may be income lost duringthe last six months, Warren said. Brown. Brown said the vote to ratify the contract Asia. available. The current policy at The administration was unavailable for comment. between the union and ISS was unfair. Present at the meeting were Tufts regarding University- Monday’s event will place the University in the “Other people were bused in by our union to vote based financial aid is that it is not President John DiBiaggio, Vice- unusual position of hosting the announcement of a on the final offer- our final offer,” Brown told The President of Arts, Sciences and available to international stu- lawsuit in which it is named. Warren said the public Boston Globe. - Technology Me1 Bernstein, In- dents for the first two years of event will be used to generate support for the former The legal action comes just weeks after SEIU’s ternational Center Director Jane study. custodians. national ofice announced it would investigatecom- “The current budget does not Etish-Andrews and Assistant Di- The Tufts Faculty/Staffand StudentCommittee in plaints about Local 254. The local union has 18,000 allow for a substantial amount of rector Janie Bess, as well as Di- Support of the Custodians arranged for the campus members, many of whom are employed by Boston rectors of the Office of Financial financial aid to be allocated,” center press conference, said Paul Joseph, a sociol- area colleges, and has been accused ofmisrepresent- Aid, the Bursar, and the Deans of Eastwood said. ogy professor and member ofthe support committee. ing its workers by Fleetcenter employees. various colleges. Approximately A Fletcher School student at- “We strongly oppose Tufts’ decision over the With a legal battle looming, a food drive tending the meeting took the op- 30 students attended the meet- past few years to dispose ofhuman beings who have benefitting the custodians continues on the ing. portunity to thank the administra- worked much of their lives at Tufts due to ‘bottom Medford campus. The drive was organized by staff, Before the meeting began, a tion for caring for the interest of line’ reasons,” Joseph said. Faculty members have faculty, and students in conjunction with the Tufts first-yearstudent from Korea, who the Asian student body, but was raiseda significant amount ofmoney to subsidizethe School ofNutrition and Science Policy whose fac- wishedto remain anonymsns, ex- worried tht the F!etcher Schoo! custodiar,~’legal fees, said Joseph who has been a ulty voted 26- 1 to condemn the University’s custo- emergency loan he gotthis semes- pressed concern over her current leader of the outspoken group that first formed in dial decision. and future financial status. “My ter would not be available next October. “Tufts prides itself as taking the lead in the fight dad’s business in Korea is not semester. Age discrimination complaints have also been against world hunger, yet the administration has doing well, and I’ve had trouble Another student expressed filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against taken actions that have created hunger right on its concern over the minimal contri- paying the tuition this semester. Discrimination. They claim Tufts’ actions adversely own doorstep,” Joseph said. I’m hoping this meeting will be bution on-campus employment helpful to me,” she said. She was makes to paying off the hefty tu- not alone, however, as severalmore ition. President of Feminist Majority students said they were facing Dean of Students Bobbie difficultiespaying this semester’s Knable reminded the students Bursar’s bill. about the many counseling op- addresses Prospects for fhture After a brief address by Presi- portunities that the University dent DiBiaggio expressing con- offers for students. “All of the by JORDAN SOLOMON the ongoing battle for equality. cern forthewell-being ofthe Asian resources we have are availableto Senior Staff Writer “I really feel that you’re the first community in time ofcrisis,Direc- you,” she said, “and it helps to talk In an effort to create awareness generation that has a shot of see- tor ofthe International Center,Jane to somebody about your troubles ofthe goals ofthe feminist move- ing equality between men and Etish-Andrews told students that in addition to seeking help from ment and its prospects for the fb- women. I see in your faces the there was a possibility that they financial sources.” ture, Eleanor Smeal, president of enthusiasm and determination to would be able to become part-time Knable recommended that stu- the Feminist Majority Foundation, make it happen,” she said. students in order to work off cam- dents start asking “what-if’ ques- addressedTufh studentsin Alum- She went on to say though that pus. She stressed, however, that tions in anticipation of the pos- nae Lounge Wednesday night. for this goal to be realized, this she has not yet received this in sible need to take alternativemea- Smeal’s address expressed a effort must be kept at a high level. writing. suressuch as time offfrom school. great deal of optimism, as she be- “We cannot accept injustice. It is Furthermore, private family gan by saying that society may be important for all of you to think lans are sometimes available to see FINANCIAL,page 11 approaching a historic period in that you can do something about it. The reason why I say that you ‘think’ you can do something about it is because we are limited by what we think, and one of my jobs as a leader is to make you think that we can do this,” she Photo by Eric Anderson explained. Eleanor Smeal Smealreferred back to her days as an undergraduateat Duke Uni- the time was only 25 percent fe- versity as the inspiratioii for her male. At that point, she dedicated mission of equality. The issue of herself to the effort of ending the race on campus was what first abuses. opened her eyes to the issue of She also stressed that it is im- social injustices. “I realized that portant not to make too great a no African American was allowed distinctionbetween discrimination to go [to Duke] simply because of against women and discrimination their race, and it blew me away,” against all other groups. “The rea- she said. son I am telling all ofthis to you is After examining the situation to orient you into the historic more closely, she said she realized movement for women that has that she too, as an Italian and been greatly intertwined with all CatholicAmerican, was in a minor- issues of social injhstice,” she ity. Not long afterwards, she be- said. came aware that another form of “In fact,the Feminist Majority, discrimination existed in society upon the discovery that Duke at see SMEAL,page 11 lage two THETUFTS DAILY Friday, February 27,1998 THETUFTS DAILY Letters to the Editor P.O. Box 18, Medford, MA. 02153 (617) 627-3090; Fax: (617) 627-3910, [email protected] Ethics is path to or the like.
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