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...Supreme Court in late June ruled in a unanimous decision the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had correctly ordered Beth Israel, a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital, to allow distribution of union literature and solicitation for union membership in the hospital cafeteria and coffee shop. The ruling is especially significant because it is the first case of its kind to come before the Supreme Court in the relatively new field of hospital labor law, created when Congress included hospitals under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA...
...decision ended a four-year process of appeals by the University to the NLRB ruling, and also marks one more dispute between Harvard and Local 880, the Services Employees International Union. Local 880 members are nurses' aides, technicians, maintenance workers, secretarial and kitchen workers...
...employees voted, 325-122, not to join the union. The union conducted another organizing campaign at the Boston Hospital for Women in 1976, and again the workers voted against the union. However, after the election the staff director for the union, Gerald M. Shea, filed a complaint with the NLRB alleging that the hospital had intimidated and coerced its workers, and in one incident, attempted bribery. Shea says the Board ruled in the winter of 1977 that the hospital was guilty of illegal practices in the election of October 1976, and offered the union the chance to call another election...
...enlarge the NLRB from five to seven members to speed up handling of complaints of unfair labor practices...
...company has the audacity to announce that its agreement with the NLRB "does not constitute an admission by Stevens that it has committed any unfair labor practices...