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...UNFORTUNATE DECISION rendered in the long-deadlocked unionizing dispute between Harvard and Medical Area District 65 by regional NLRB director Robert Fuchs last month represents a disappointing setback in the long-standing efforts of workers in the Medical area to achieve union representation...
...regional director repeatedly attempted to send the unprecedented case to NLRB in Washington, but ultimately succumbed to pressure from the Washington board to render a decision which he was unwilling to make. By refusing to refer the matter to Washington immediately after briefs were filed in February, Fuchs obviously blundered, as evidenced by his subsequent unsuccessful attempts to dispose of the case. Both Harvard and District 65 were well aware of this when they jointly petitioned the NLRB in Washington to take the case last December. For its part, the Washington board was wrong in not taking the case from...
Furthermore, on the same day that Fuchs rendered his decision, the Washington NLRB handed down a seemingly contradictory ruling in a similar case involving workers at Columbia University's off-campus research facilities. The regional director's decision has thus been discredited in the eyes of the union by both the inability of Fuchs to reach a prompt finding and the Columbia decision...
...medical area is an appropriate bargaining unit, had been completed, but phase two, which was to be devoted to determining which classifications of employees would be eligible to join a union if one was established, hadn't even begun. Since phase two is an issue only if the NLRB favors the union on phase 1, Fuchs broke precedent and reviewed the case in incomplete form...
...getting the national board to break a procedural precedent is something else again, and District 65 and Harvard may find themselves locked into another few months of hearings in Boston before the NLRB takes the case...