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...United Auto Workers. It is in the union's efforts to represent workers in its big targets, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, that a wall of opposition from the hospitals' management has developed. Last year, before workers were to vote on the question of union representation at affiliates Beth Israel Hospital and Boston Hospital for Women, administrators at those institutions brought into play a high-powered anti-union consulting firm, operating out of Chicago, going by the ominous name of Modern Management Methods, Inc. There are federal laws forbidding employers from hiring this kind of firm to persuade workers directly...
...Beth Israel and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals--two Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals that the union repeatedly said gave their employees better packages than the plan's offer--will pay first-year employees only about $3.40 per hour next year...
...special conditions of hospitals, where workers' rights to organize must be balanced against patients' rights to quality health care, bring forth unique legal questions as to where employees should be allowed to unionize. Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital is bringing before the Supreme Court a case that will set an important precedent...
...hospital is disputing a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision forbidding the hospital from banning prounion solicitation in its cafeteria. Beth Israel claims that union supporters might disturb ambulatory patients and visitors eating there. But the hospital cafeteria is also an important employee gathering place. Hospital administrators can argue against the union in letters that accompany workers' paychecks, but a union that is unable to reach workers during their off-hours at the hospital is severely restricted in its ability to present its side of the picture...
...Massachusetts Court of Appeals upheld the NLRB in the Beth Israel case, but in a similar case, a Missouri court ruled that hospitals do have a broad right to restrict pro-union activities on their grounds. The Supreme Court should hear the two cases to resolve the contradictory decisions. The Court should keep an eye to patients' rights, certainly, but it must also assure that there is a forum where unions can reach a long-neglected work force...