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March 1984: The NLRB overturns its previous decision and rules that the union will have to organize clerical and technical workers on the entire campus in order to hold an election...
March 14, 1988: HUCTW files its petition for an election with the NLRB. At the same time, union members hand-deliver letters to the homes of the Corporation members, requesting that they assist in ensuring a quick election...
HUCTW filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), calling for an election. The NLRB requires that the union bring in signed support cards from 30 percent of eligible workers to qualify for an election, yet HUCTW leaders said they have already garnered signed cards from a majority of workers--which, if translated into votes, would be enough...
...average wait for an election is 60 days, during which time the NLRB defines which workers are eligible to vote as part of the union's potential "bargaining unit." But previous elections at Harvard have been delayed for up to two years by legal challenges from the University administration. During this election the administration is expected to erect legal stumbling blocks to delay the union campaign on whether research assistants or other categories of workers should be eligible to vote...
...Harvard administration should allow for an immediate election for another reason--it would be on the terms it has set. In 1984 the administration won a federal suit with the NLRB forcing the union to enlarge its organizing area from the Medical Area's 700 workers to the entire campus's 4000. What was designed as a fatal blow to force the union to organize an area larger than it could handle turned into an organizing success--attracting wider attention and support for the cause...