Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel's service 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...
...recipient was a patient or an employee. After this incident, Local 880 filed a grievance with the NLRB charging an unfair labor practice that violated Section 7 of the NLRA. Section 7 guarantees employees the right to choose whether or not they want to join a union. After the complaint was filed, the hospital changed its rule to forbid one-to-one solicitation in the cafeteria in order to force the NLRB to define the rights of a non-proprietary hospital, the hospital's court brief says...
...friendly police even provided two motorcyclists to clear the way. They sat in a busy intersection, chanting, "The streets belong to the people!" But when a few cops finally told them to move on, they meekly complied. They smoked pot and slept in the park, but their main complaint to the bored police was, "How come we're not getting busted...
...Assistance Project, admits that intimidation accounts for some no-shows. But more are due to misunderstanding of the criminal-justice system. Lots of people call for a cop to protect them, but, says Feinstein bluntly: "The large majority have no intention of going to court when they make their complaint." To combat disaffection, the Vera program provides a special reception center for witnesses in the courthouse, free transportation to court, day care for witnesses' children, a "victim's hot line" so prospective witnesses can get instant advice and reassurance. There is even a repair service to board...
...have a point. Though the court last week upheld Nannen, it took the unusual step of expressing "regret" that the complaint had to be rejected and encouraged the feminists to "work toward a true" portrayal of women. The losing plaintiffs could also take heart from a comment in the Stuttgarter Zeitung that the decision was a "boxing on the ears [for]all those?especially men?who have shoved women into a dubious corner and defamed them...