Timothy Manning, Harvard's Director of Labor Relations, will receive one of this year's Cushing-Gavin Awards for excellence in labor-management relations. Manning and three other Boston-area labor relations experts will be honored by the Labor Guild, an agency of the Archdiocese of Boston responsible for encouraging competence, integrity, and vision in labor-management relations. Manning, who has served in his present position since November 1993, directs the University's labor relations programs involving seven collective bargaining agreements covering some 4,600 employees. During his tenure, Harvard has successfully negotiated contract extensions with several of those units and now has multi-year contracts with five of them (HUCTW, Police, Maintenance Trades, Custodians, and Dining Services).

Sally Zeckhauser, Vice President for Administration, said, "Over the last three years, Tim and his staff have worked extremely hard to develop and maintain a collaborative and constructive relationship with Harvard's unions. The hard work has paid off. This approach has allowed the University and the unions to work together to solve problems and promote common interests, not only during formal negotiations, but on an ongoing basis."

Manning came to Harvard from Raytheon, where he developed the human resources strategy for the Missile Systems Division during a period of reorganization, and restructured Raytheon's international human resources policies.

The Cushing-Gavin Award was named for Richard Cardinal Cushing and Mortimer Gavin, S.J., past chaplain of the Labor Guild, both of whom were known for their concern for workplace justice. It is given each year to professionals representing four categories: union official, management representative, auxiliary contributors (such as arbitrators, academics, and public agency personnel), and labor or management counsel (attorneys in private practice who serve essentially full-time as counsel for either management or trade unions).

This year's winners, in addition to Manning, include: Donald Wightman, National President of the Utility Workers Union of America; Roberta Grolick, arbitrator; and Paul Kelly, attorney with Segal, Roitman and Coleman. All of the winners will be honored at a dinner at the Sheraton Boston Hotel on Dec. 6.