Word: nlrb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...January 1976, the regional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) director denied District 65's request for recognition as an acceptable bargaining unit for the 800 Medical Area clerical and technical employees. The decision upheld Harvard's contention that the employees should seek a University-wide clerical union. It also made a formal union election impossible...
...NLRB, however, a year later overturned in a 3-2 vote its January 1976 decision allowing District 65 to hold an election among Medical Area workers...
Four years later, UAW is back. The eight full-time-officials and other clerical and technical workers organizing throughout the University say they expect another NLRB election next year. This time, however, all 3,600 employees--about 80 percent are women--will vote. UAW says a University-wide union satisfies Harvard's claim during previous elections in 1977 and 1981 that medical area employees did not constitute a separate bargaining unit...
Yale clerical and technical workers began organizing in 1968, but it was not for another 15 years and three NLRB elections later that AFL-CIO Local 34 gained official ratification. To get NLRB approval, a union must receive a majority vote from its worker constituency in a sanctioned election. The NLRB, which was formed during Franklin D. Roosevelt's '04 New Deal era, requires a petition with 30 percent of the worker's signatures before it will sponsor an election...
Columbia University clerical workers finally gained NLRB-recognition in February. The 1,000 employees had voted in favor of UAW District 65 two years beforehand, but Columbia, questioning the election's legitimacy, appealed the election to the NLRB. Legal skirmishes persisted for more than a year, but the controversy came to head when the union threatened to strike unless the university recognized...