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...from the American deprived whom he has championed, a long distance from the middle class whose stresses he says he perceives. Ted Kennedy may at last be a true Kennedy, one of those depicted in the photographs, paintings and mementos that grace the family homes in Palm Beach, Fla., McLean, Va., and Hyannis Port, Mass...
Through all of these episodes, Malin managed to hold on to his job. But on Feb. 1, 1979 --20 days after submitting to the MGH trustees a notice of intent to unionize--the hospital suspended him for alleged insubordination. Malin filed his 11th charge against McLean...
...McLean took issue with Malin's refusal to answer questions--without first consulting a lawyer--about his visit to McLean with an NLRB attorney 54 days earlier. He had brought the Labor Board representative to see the physical set-up of the hospital in preparation for an upcoming trial. This trial was based on NLRB charges Malin had filed from September 1977 to January 1978 against the hospital. According to labor law, a worker has a right to have a witness at an interview with an employer when he has a reasonable apprehension that disciplinary action may follow...
...Malin was on his own, unemployed but determined to see through his charges against McLean. In a coup de grace, McLean filed a notice with the state Division of Employment Security, preventing Malin from collecting unemployment insurance. In such a situation, governmental action to secure immediate reinstatement is, by its nature, the most effective remedy to protect violation. Without such action, the victimized worker faces financial hardship in pursuing the case. Furthermore, the co-workers in these circumstances are naturally reluctant to speak out about their working conditions for fear they will lose their jobs. But according to Howard...
...then, does someone like Laurence Malin--who could have done other things with his time--spend several years struggling with McLean? Malin, who is working on a book on world human rights based partially on his extensive travels, finds it "an unacceptable anomaly that while we condemn the authoritarian countries of the world for their repression of speech--Sakharov and the others--we allow a similar repression of speech in America's workplaces...