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...stake is the establishment of a group that would be certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which under current labor law cannot certify a union which has both guards and non-guards...
Last month, the NLRB ruled that the three units--Harvard's security guards, parking monitors and museum attendants--could all be classified within the category of guards and therefore could be certified as a union...
...association does not pass, guards would not be able to establish a separate association under an NLRB-monitored vote until a year from now, although they would be able to join another union immediately...
Take a look at what has happened to the graduate students over the past year--practices that the NLRB classified as a violation of federal labor law because they intimidated and threatened them. When 250 graduate student TAs instituted a "grade strike," in which grades for fall semester courses were withheld in order to pressure the university into recognizing a union for TAs, the university threatened a ban on future teaching, academic disciplinary hearings, negative letters of recommendation and possible expulsion. To respond, Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) filed a suit with the NLRB earlier this year...
Furthermore, if the NLRB voids the contract, it will send a message to employers and union management officials around the nation that workers are not so easily trampled on. The publicity of this case could also help to inform more workers of their rights. As Ray Clark, one of the union shop stewards who brought the complaint before the NLRB, said, "I think if we could let other people know of the behavior of this union, we could discourage others from getting involved with unions [like this...