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SINCE EARLY MARCH, in a sixth-floor hearing room of the National Labor Relations Board in Boston, lawyers representing Harvard and lawyers for a New York-based labor union have met an average of three times a week before an NLRB hearing officer to present opposing positions. Frequently, University administrators such as Daniel Steiner '54, Harvard's general counsel; John B. Butler, director of personnel; and Douglas Knox, the Medical Area personnel head: are in attendance. Butler and Knox have served as witnesses for Harvard. Steiner simply observes. This issue in question is a petition by a group of Harvard...
Harvard said throughout the organizing drive that it was, in principle, opposed to a union limited to Medical Area personnel. And when the membership cards were filed, Harvard formally told the NLRB that it considered the type of union the organizing committee was trying to form an inappropriate bargaining unit under the National Labor Relations...
...NLRB then scheduled hearing in which District '65 has tried to show that Medical Area employees share a separate community of interest, and Harvard has sought to demonstrate that the Medical Area is just one small part of a big centralized University. Harvard has held that the only appropriate bargaining unit for clerical and technical personnel would be University-wide...
...restructure its personnel office--incorporating the separate Medical Area personnel office into the University's office--his motion failed. Levy tried to show that it was fear of a union that prompted this particular move toward a more centralized personnel structure, but he was told by the NLRB hearing officer that it had no specific relevance to the hearing. NLRB policy seems to be based on the premise that employers can, and often will, take all kinds of steps to prevent unionization, and if Harvard is offering as evidence of centralization a chart of a personnel structure that was significantly...
...National Labor Relations Board hearings over whether clerical and technical personnel in the Medical Area should be allowed to hold a union-forming election have slowed to a temporary halt. The hearings, which have been going on and off since mid-March, were postponed yesterday until June 3 by NLRB hearing officer Sal Diclerro...