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Although the National Labor Relations Board would conduct a union election after organizers have presented the signatures of 30 per cent of the area's workers, Sullivan explains, "When we have the election we want to be sure that we represent a sizeable majority." The NLRB recognizes the collective bargaining rights of a union upon declaration of support by a simple majority of the workers in an election...
...union of Medical Area clerical and technical workers would not be an "appropriate bargaining unit," as it would not include the nearly 3000 similar employees in Cambridge who share the same pay-scale with the Boston workers. Such a demonstration by the Harvard administration would probably prompt an NLRB hearing to decide the issue...
...odds-makers, one important precedent is the NLRB decision in August to deny the bid by 11 mail workers to join the Harvard printer's trade union, Local 16b of the Graphic Arts International Union. In that decision, the NLRB hearing officer endorsed the Harvard administration's argument that the 11 service employees could only join a University-wide union of clerical workers, because all clerical workers perform similar jobs at the same levels of technical expertise...
Butler says that he has not confronted the organizers yet, but with an NLRB election in sight before the winter, he is apt to run into them nose-to-nose in a hearing room, perhaps before the end of the year...
...order for a specific group of employees to form a union, 30 per cent of them have to submit cards to the NLRB stating that they want to unionize. The NLRB will then sponsor a union-forming vote if it rules that the group constitutes a unit of workers distinct enough to form a labor union. From Whence Came '78* Region Number Percentage Class of '77 Percentage New England 311 27.7% (29%) Mid Atlantic 338 30.1% (27.5%) South 127 11.3% (10.4%) Mid West 180 16% (17.6%) Mt. States 25 2.2% (3%) Pacific States 100 8.9% (8.8%) Territories 3 .4% -- Overseas...