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...voted not to authorize District 65, Distributive Workers of America, to represent them in their future negotiations with Harvard, dealing the union a stunning blow. But the University's 436-346 victory came only after Harvard adopted a new strategy to beat back District 65's effort to organize Med Area clerical and technical workers--a strategy that may not hold up next year, when union representatives say they will file for another election in the Med Area...
...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 to seek representation in a bargaining unit that would include all University clerical and technical employees. Furthermore, the University argued that District 65's proposed bargaining unit included several groups of employees, among them research assistants, who were in fact professionals...
...administrators by agreeing to hear the union's appeal-an extraordinary development, and one that Steiner now says gave him the first indication that Harvard's position might not be invulnerable. Then last May, the NLRB delivered the real shocker, reversing the regional Board decision and ruling that the Med Area was a "separate community of interest" that District 65 legally could organize apart from the rest of the University campus. The Harvard attorneys, stunned by what they considered the Board's ignorance of precedent, saw their legal defense pared down to the argument that the proposed bargaining unit wrongly...
However, Harvard's personnel office is not noted for taking wild risks, and the five-week campaign that followed the NLRB's decision was a masterpiece of political maneuvering. Steiner and Daniel Cantor, director of personnel administration, orchestrated a campaign that included frequent meetings with Med Area workers and the distribution of 12 pamphlets questioning the motives and effectiveness of District 65. While Leslie A. Sullivan, chief organizer for District 65, characterized the University's efforts as "scare tactics," Steiner holds that the entire effort was aimed at informing, rather than indoctrinating the workers, and that Harvard at all times...
Harvard followed that setback with an extensive campaign to inform the Med Area workers of its reasons for opposing the union. Steiner and Daniel D. Cantor, director of personnel administration, organized the publicity campaign, which included frequent meetings with Med Area workers and the distribution of 12 leaflets questioning the effectiveness of the union and its motives for seeking to organize the Med Area...