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Modern Management Methods consultants essentially showed hospital supervisors how to stay within the letter of national labor laws while violating them in spirit. The consultants advised supervisors not to threaten employees who voiced pro-union sentiments, since such threats would violate National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rules. At the same time the consultants instructed supervisors to present the administration's viewpoint and to inform employees when the administration feels union claims to be unjustified. According to Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, director of the hospital and associate professor of Medicine, the union makes baseless claims "virtually all the time...
...NLRB-supervised election the workers voted against the union after being subjected to a well organized, heavily funded "education" campaign directed by Modern Management Methods. A second NLRB election will be held this winter and the hospital administration apparently has decided to follow a similar strategy...
...agreement requires the union to drop the grievances it has lodged against Cambion with the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB has already denied one of the grievances and the new contract would effectively nullify the remaining ones, Polaski said...
Without claiming economic hardship, Cambion provoked the strike and has refused to bargain. Cambion tried illegally to withhold vacation wages earned by workers before the strike began. And two years ago the NLRB ruled Cambion had illegally fired two workers for their support of the union organizing drive at the plant...
...NLRB is clearly inadequate in protecting the rights of workers to organize. The National Labor Relations Act--with its light sanctions against offending companies and its allowances for endless delays--is inherently favorable to management in situations like this. And this has been clear in many labor disputes other than the one between Local 262 and Cambion...