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...whether it will accept the case on appeal. Union officials are privately pessimistic about their chances to obtain even a hearing from the Washington board. Despite what they claim is overwhelming sentiment in favor of a Med area union on the part of area employees, and despite a NLRB ruling on a case involving clerical and technical workers at Columbia University's off-campus research facilities--which seems in many respects to contradict the January ruling on the District 65 case by NLRB regional director Joseph Fuchs--organizers feel the chances that the Washington board will accept the case...
District 65 last week filed an unfair labor practices charge on Trudel's behalf with the National Labor Relations Board. Harvard has apparently chosen to fight out the Trudel case in the NLRB rather than internally. Powers turned the investigation over to Ropes and Gray, Harvard's law firm, with this decision in mind...
Earlier this week, Trudel was also informed that he can file a grievance with the University concerning his firing. Trudel has said he will file the grievance, but like Harvard, he and his attorneys seem to be placing their ultimate faith in the NLRB investigation...
...neither Harvard nor its workers rely on the NLRB as a convenient way of disposing of union and worker grievances. In the long run, the University must improve its internal investigatory processes and some of its more questionable hiring and dismissal policies if it is to avoid drawn-out and often embarrassing battles in the NLRB...
Meanwhile, Harvard should reinstate Trudel immediately, and should withdraw its opposition to the unfair labor practices charge until it has taken both Trudel's and his co-workers' depositions. The University should complete a fulland open investigation of the matter before the case is remanded to the NLRB...