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National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) officials said yesterday that a hearing on the University's charges against the election day campaign practices of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) will be held in the next eight weeks, but that a final decision in the case would probably come much later...
...letter sent to all 3700 clerical and technical workers late last week, Anne H. Taylor, who heads the University's anti-union efforts, called the election "unfair and invalid" and said HUCTW was not legally entitled to represent any Harvard employees...
...HUCTW Director Kris Rondeau could not be reached for comment...
Ronald S. Cohen, the NLRB staff attorney who is acting supervisor of the HUCTW case, said yesterday that the Board is currently trying to schedule a date for the hearing "within four to eight weeks." At that time, an administrative law judge will listen to Harvard present evidence supporting its 13 allegations against the union, he said...
...HUCTW denies the charges, saying it engaged in legal get-out-the-vote efforts. The union won the May 17th election by a 44-vote margin, although if it had received four fewer votes the election would have been litigated under a previous agreement with the University. The election capped a three-year organizing drive by HUCTW and a two-month anti-union campaign waged by the University...