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...translation seemed to be that the NLRB is simply fed up with Stevens and its antiunion attitudes that seem to anachronistically exemplify the South in its earlier, immature stage of industrial growth. Over the years, the board has found Stevens guilty of unfair labor practices 15 times and hit Stevens with $1.3 million in fines. Last summer a federal court of appeals took the unusual step of warning Stevens that any future violations would bring fat fines of $100,000 each, plus $5,000 for every day the violations continued. That was not really much of a threat; such fines...
...NLRB, which is supposed to ensure that unions and management behave with some semblance of civility toward each other, said it would seek the injunction unless Stevens makes good-faith attempts to settle pending unfair-labor-practice suits against six of its plants. At those plants, the Government body has found that Stevens "discharged, reprimanded, harassed and disciplined employees in reprisal for support of a union [and] coercively interrogated employees concerning union activity." Why a national rather than a local injunction? Said the NLRB: "Given the employer's past history and given the evidence that its unfair labor practices...
...NLRB threatens the "No. 1 labor-law outlaw...
Joel Ax, associate general counsel of the A.C.T.W.U.. hailed the NLRB's threat to seek an injunction as helping to "encourage workers to freely discuss unionization." Stevens seemed unruffled: a company statement said that an injunction "would be inappropriate and unwarranted, and we are confident that any court would view it in the same manner." Certainly Stevens has not yet been hurt in any financially measurable way by bad publicity about its opposition to unionism or by the A.C.T.W.U.'s efforts to organize a boycott. Indeed, many argue that the fines and legal costs of fighting...
...taking on the legal battle, though, the NLRB has guaranteed that in any further drives the hospital will not be able to use legal appeals as a delaying tactic. The Massachusetts Hospital Workers have made the way that much easier for the next unionizing drive...