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Rather than spend large sums of money for legal expenses by challenging the NLRB's 1977 ruling in court, Steiner and his team decided to pour funds into another anti-union campaign. Both the union and the University thought the experience of the 1977 vote would help them, and the two sides assented to an April election date...
WITHIN TWO DAYS, District 65 had apparently established a different cause for its downfall--illegal conduct by Harvard supervisors during the campaign. Its lawyers filed six sets of objections with the NLRB, requesting a new election on the grounds that the behavior of University representatives unfairly influenced the vote's outcome. The union then withdrew five sets of its objections, leaving regional NLRB hearing officer Maria C. Walsh to decide whether certain statements made by supervisory personnel to eligible voters had enough impact to warrant another election...
...ruling, which recommended that the results of the vote be overturned and a new election ordered. The move took both sides by surprise, and District 65 was buoyed sufficiently to announce intentions to organize clerical and technical workers throughout the University's main campus, about 3000 in all. Expecting NLRB regional director Robert M. Fuchs to uphold Wlash's decision and to call for a new election, the union stepped up its organization drive in the Med Area...
...union has one avenue of legal appeal still open--it can request the NLRB's federal offices to review Fuchs' decision. But union organizers indicated this week that they would not exercise that option, preferring instead to file with the NLRB in February for the right to hold another election in April...
University attorneys this week voiced approval of Fuchs' decision. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said the NLRB's director's ruling was correct "both as a matter of law and as a matter of common sense...