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...NLRB criteria, any group of workers whose members perform similar tasks in a similar setting may form a union. The issue at the medical area hearing will not be similar tasks but whether the medical area and the parts of the University on this side of the Charles are similar settings. If the organizing committee wins, it will hold an election, probably win and form a union: if it loses it could join forces with a similar group in Cambridge and prepare to wait another year or two for unionization...
...hearing's outcome will affect less than ten workers, but this spring's second hearing is likely to have far wider implications. Harvard will probably seek to convince the NLRB that a medical area employees group does not have the right to form a union local among the 800 clerical and technical workers in the medical area. The organizing committee will ask the NLRB this month to sanction a union-forming election at the medical area, and Harvard contends that the only appropriate union for clerical and technical workers here is a University-wide...
...spokesman for the Organizing Committee. Leslie Sullivan, said Thursday that over 50 per cent of the 800 Medical Area employees have signed District 65 membership cards although the NLRB only requires that 30 per cent sign in order to hold an election...
Unless its position changes, the University will challenge the Medical Area employees right to hold a union election, when the Organizing Committee files its request with the NLRB...
...NLRB will then hold hearings to determine whether the Medical Area is in fact an appropriate unit...