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...circ. 151,000). The strikebreakers are not permitted to join the Guild as long as the original strike continues, so this year they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to have their own group, Employees for Better Working Conditions, designated as the paper's sole bargaining unit. An NLRB election last month was Abruptly canceled when the Guild withdrew from the running. Says Guild Spokesman Dick Pattison: "It didn't make much sense for us to be on the ballot when the only ones voting would be the strikebreakers...
...within the larger University. And Harvard's claim that the union should include workers throughout the University is little more than an attempt to head off a union altogether. The organizing drive in Cambridge is far less advanced than that at the Medical Area, and a decision by the NLRB against a Medical Area union would be a serious blow to the District 65's already limited efforts in Cambridge...
Meanwhile, at the NLRB, a hearing that has dragged on all spring is staggering toward a conclusion. The hearing involves an attempt by clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area to form a union--an attempt Harvard opposes, saying the only appropriate union of clerical and technical workers would be a University-wide...
...EVEN IF the NLRB approves its petition for a union-forming election, there is still the question of whether District 65 would win the necessary 50 per cent of the vote. Judging from the number of cards that were turned in--"well over 50 per cent," according to the union's Medical Area organizer, Leslie Sullivan--one would think that there would be no contest. But surveys done by the NLRB indicate that the number of signed cards often has no correlation to the election results. As an NLRB official said last week, "People will sign anything, but voting...
...there is another factor that might affect the election. The NLRB will decide during the summer whether the Medical Area is an appropriate unit. If it determines that it is, and if a Harvard appeal fails, assuming Harvard appeals at all, the hearings will enter a second phase. The focus of that phase will be to decide which classifications of employees should be part of the union. Conceivably, a large group of employees who support the union and have signed cards will be eliminated, particularly if the NLRB rules that employees classified as Research Assistant II--a group of paraprofessionals...