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...days off--a few days after distributing a questionnaire to his co-workers to elicit their responses--the hospital informed Malin that he was indefinitely suspended without pay for initiating the report. Certain that the hospital had no right to take such action, he filed his first charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) protesting his suspension. Four years, 11 NLRB cases and nine feet of documents and miscellaneous papers later, Malin is still battling McLean...
...Malin's 11 NLRB cases epitomize a growing number of instances in which workers use provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to attempt to guarantee employee rights...
Ewing documents how such fundamental rights as freedom of speech, the ability to object to immoral, unethical or illegal orders from superiors, security and privacy, choice of outside activities and associations and due process are constantly abridged in the work-place. Malin's long legal battle with McLean is a model example of this broadening concept of workers' rights and reveals the limitations of the current system in guaranteeing these rights...
...After Malin filed his first charges with the NLRB, the hospital felt moved to reinstate him. He withdrew the charges against McLean in return for regaining employment and receiving back pay for the five weeks he was suspended. Evidently fearing Malin's ability to rally support among the workers in his unit, the hospital reassigned him to the adult section, which is separate from the Children's Center. By now, Malin had immersed himself in an independent study of labor law; he knew he had the legal right to seek reinstatement in his original job. More charges were filed with...
...next few years were a blur of endless legal battles between Malin, McLean and MGH. Malin spent many long hours preparing never-ending charges against the hospital and supporting them with documentary evidence, affidavits from other employees, and legal briefs. Backed by lawyers from the large Boston firm of Herrick & Smith, the hospital continued to violate Section 7 of the NLRA, which is the only statute that comes close to serving as a workers' bill of rights. Malin used other avenues as well to voice his and his co-workers' grievances about hospital working conditions; in 1977, he wrote...