Word: counsels
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...information forever. They have no legal right to inspect most private files to contest or correct them. Nor can they prevent the records from being shared among banks, credit bureaus and insurance companies, or shown to employers. or turned over to law enforce ment agencies. Says Douglas Lea, counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights: "Privacy is power. What we're really talking about is whether the Government and other large organizations will have power over the individual." Warns California Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr.: "With out a sense of privacy, the Bill of Rights guarantees cease to function...
...with a membership of about 25,000, first cast its eye on Harvard three years ago, few observers believed the union could organize the workers in the face of the University's high-powered opposition. As the union drive wore on, their skepticism seemed justified; Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, relied on an expensive team of Ropes and Grey lawyers to tie up District 65's bid for an organizing election in a maze of legal challenges. Harvard contended that the union could not organize just the Med Area, but rather that Med Area workers would have...
...stressed what they called District 65's poor record both in organizing elections and in negotiations. Each implied that the union was seeking to organize in Massachusetts only to generate dues revenue to offset losses from its New York operation; as Edward W. Powers, Harvard's associate general counsel for employee relations, said, "In a sense, the union needs Harvard more than Harvard needs the union." And finally, both campaigns were "labor-intensive"--both Sytek and Steiner agree that the efforts required far more hours of planning and pamphlet-writing than actual cash, and the campaigns were obviously far cheaper...
Pool said Harvard allegedly violated NLRB campaign rules in the course of its "information campaign" to acquaint Med Area workers of the University's reasons for opposing the union. Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, yesterday declined to comment on Pool's charges...
...Means. At a tense Summa board meeting on May 18, Davis led the directors in voting down every one of Lummis' proposals. Lummis got angry. At a May 26 meeting, he kicked Davis off the board, though Davis remains general counsel ("One thing at a time," explains a Lummis confidant). Lummis installed a majority of his own men on the board. He also lifted the title of chief executive officer from Gay and bestowed it on himself. But Gay and Nadine Henley, the other members of the Summa triumvirate, kept their seats on the board...