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...final vote showed 436 workers opposed the union and 346 favored it, with 66 contested ballots and two ruled void. There were not enough challenges to anti-union ballots to affect the outcome of the balloting, an official of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which supervised the election, said Wednesday night...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, yesterday called the University's victory--which capped a lengthy battle in the NLRB to block the election and a more recent publicity campaign against the union--"a tribute to a large number of people thinking about the issues and then going on and voting their wishes...
...decision, the NLRB rejected Harvard's contention that the almost 1100 Med Area workers could seek representation only in a University-wide bargaining unit. The surprise ruling, which overturned a regional board decision upholding Harvard's position, concluded the expensive legal bickering and set the stage for an organizing election on June...
...activities. Last spring, Sylvia Gallagher helped lead a lunch-hour walkout by members of Local 26 for an emergency union meeting. When the University slapped Gallagher with a five-day suspension and docked her two hours pay, she filed a grievance against Harvard with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Several weeks later, Harvard offered Gallagher only a part-time summer job--one that Gallagher's legal advisor says could have downgraded her employment status...
Nearly 1000 clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area received their happiest news in three years, however, when the NLRB last month overturned a regional director's ruling and granted the right to hold a unionizing election under District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America. The workers, who began their organizing drive in 1974, almost saw it disintegrate on all too many occasions. The University doggedly opposed District 65 every step of the way for two and a half years, and mustered every ounce of the formidable legal talent at its disposal to stave off the union...