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...early 1980s, Columbia pressed litigation against its union before it was elected as the official bargaining unit with the university. Columbia administrators called upon the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which certifies union elections, to redefine the union's constituency, according to union officials. The university claimed that lowranking administrators should be defined as support staff and consequently union members. But the NLRB rejected the proposal, which workers said would have allowed for too much administrative influence in the union...
...appeal to the NLRB and other delays resulted in a lapse of four years between when the union distributed cards and when the first contract was signed...
Stanford administrators brought the case before the NLRB, which rejected the administrators' claims and instead charged the university with unfair labor practices. In the end, the USW won a confidence vote, the NLRB dropped the charges, and the university resumed recognition of the union...
...HARVARD UNIVERSITY POLICE Department patrolmen's union has taken its almost year-long dispute with the University to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The patrolmen's association alleges that the University circumvented the collective-bargaining process by making a new contract offer directly to the patrolmen at roll calls rather than working through the association. Such an allegation, if it is true--and the University denies it--is quite serious. It means that Harvard is still trying to deny that its workers, in this case the patrolmen, have the right to organize into unions to improve their bargaining position...
Harvard has consistently tried to bust unions. The University has spent millions over the last 12 years to defeat efforts by clerical and technical workers to organize into a union, repeatedly litigating election petitions before the NLRB for nine years. In 1982 the personnel office at the Medical School was moved in the middle of the night to support a bid to refuse them a union election. Harvard has also tried to stymie the dining hall workers' union. Last year officials tried to hire non-union labor at the Faculty Club and forced workers at the Business School's Kresge...