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...Harvard, contrary to union rhetoric, exerts no undue influence on the NLRB, or at least not directly. George Leet, a spokesman for the Washington board, called the notion "ridiculous;" Fuchs, Powers, and even union attorneys agreed...
...Harvard doesn't "own" the NLRB, as the union is wont to charge, it does engage in behavior which would rankle even the most ordinarily unflappable organizer. Harvard's research in the District 65 case was apparently so good that it saved Fuchs's secretaries countless trips to the archives--Fuchs simply decided to use information provided in Harvard briefs in his decision to the near-complete exclusion of union testimony. "If they say it, it's got to be right," complains Leslie Sullivan, District 65's Med Area organizer...
...University may have a point. There is little doubt that scattershot unionization has problems may in fact have seemed so great to Columbia that university officials felt somehow put upon to influence the balloting in the NLRB-authorized election against District 65 a few weeks ago. That election is currently being contested. Partial unionization is attendant with innumerable problems which are all-too common in other sectors of the economy; perhaps most fearsome among them is that of leapfrogging wage settlements. If employees in similar job classifications are paid different wages simply because they are represented by different unions, then...
...with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Amendment. Previously, the Massachusetts state labor board would award union status to different stores in a department store chain and to different floors in factories, simply on the basis of the extent to which they were already organized. Now, however, the NLRB is bound by only two ambiguous and often conflicting general criteria: it must attempt to increase the bargaining power of workers (thus favoring large bargaining units), while it also seeks to guarantee the worker's right to free organization (which would tend to favor small units). And the Board has shown...
...which perhaps proves that it is a risky business to attempt to predict the behavior of the NLRB. One can only look forward to the Board's decision with interest, keeping in mind the words of Leet: "It is the job of the National Board to make sure that a coherent overall policy is followed, and that case precedent is followed to the extent that the Board sees fit." If the Board sees fit to ignore precedent in this case, the enemies of a Med area union may in fact have found an unwitting ally in the halls...