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...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...
Beth Israel Hospital, a Harvard teaching affiliate, is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that the hospital could not ban pro-union solicitation in its cafeteria...
...ruling rose out of an unsuccessful unionizing drive at the hospital last year during which Beth Israel administrators warned employees that they would be disciplined for promoting unionization in the cafeteria, which is open to ambulatory patients and patients' friends...
...hospital administration's actions interfered with employees' rights to have a place to organize, Donald Marrow, supervisory attorney for the NLRB in Boston, said yesterday. He added that the cafeteria is primarily for employees...
However, employees arguing in the cafeteria for unionization might shake patients' confidence in the hospital, Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, director of Beth Israel, said Tuesday...