Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court in late June ruled in a unanimous decision the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had correctly ordered Beth Israel, a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital, to allow distribution of union literature and solicitation for union membership in the hospital cafeteria and coffee shop. The ruling is especially significant because it is the first case of its kind to come before the Supreme Court in the relatively new field of hospital labor law, created when Congress included hospitals under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA...
Local 880's organizing efforts began in 1974, when Beth 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...
Further allegations of unfair practice surfaced in the union's organizing campaign at Beth Israel which resulted in another union defeat, 593-294. The hospital charged Shea with assault and battery after an altercation with a hospital guard. Shea filed counter charges, and in December 1976 a court threw out the case. In addition, a state rate-setting commission ruled that Beth Israel had to return $19,000 in funds used to hire a Chicago management consulting firm which advised on ways to defeat the union...
...Beth Israel's case against Local 880 reached the Supreme Court in a climate of intense hostility and suspicion engendered by this series of events. In October 1974, Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, director of Beth Israel, ordered a technical employee, Anne Schunior, to stop distributing a union pamphlet in the hospital cafeteria, to which patients and visitors have access. At this time, Beth Israel's rules forbade the distribution of union literature in the cafeteria, although it allowed one-to-one union solicitation by employees of other employees during non-working hours in the cafeteria. The hospital did permit...
...April 1975, the NLRB heard the case and ruled in favor of the union. The hospital appealed the case to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, which supported the board's decision, and then Beth Israel appealed the case to the Supreme Court, which held oral hearings in late April...