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...today lawyers for Harvard and District 65 of the United Auto Workers Union will file briefs before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), opening what may prove to be the final round in an eight-year battle to unionize the clerical and technical workers of the medical area. If the Board rules that Harvard compromised a union election held last spring, a new vote will have to be held. Otherwise, District 65 may have a long wait before it can try again...
Since 1974, when District 65 first began fighting to unionize medical area workers. Harvard has battled back determinedly. There have been months of furious campaigning by both sides, days of hearings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and two bitterly contested elections. But many of the original issues remain unresolved and both sides have developed a deeply entrenched distrust of the other...
Harvard Will Sue Harvard officials said yesterday that even if the NLRB rules in favor of District 65, the University would try to block another election by suing the labor agency in federal court...
Although the NLRB hears only one out of 10 cases stemming from local disputes, Harvard's Assistant General Counsel Edward W. Powers said that the federal review was not a victory for union leaders...
Each request for an NLRB review is considered by a three-members panel of agency executives, and one group voted 2-1 on Friday to have all five board members evaluate the election later this spring, said John C. Truesdale, executive secretary for the NLRB...