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Wednesday's election followed an NLRB ruling last month granting District 65 the right to hold the election after almost three years of legal opposition from Harvard. The May ruling reversed an earlier regional NLRB decision upholding Harvard's position that clerical and technical workers in the Med Area could only seek representation in a University-wide bargaining unit, rather than through District...
Workers in the Medical Area voted Wednesday to reject the bid of District 65, Distributive Workers of America, to represent them in their future dealings with Harvard, temporarily halting the union's three-year campaign to organize the Med Area...
Armand Braun of Ridgewood, N.J., compiled a respectable B-plus average in pre-med studies at New York University. But like tens of thousands of other young Americans each year, he was turned down by medical schools. Still determined to become a doctor, Braun did what an increasing number of rejectees do each year: he looked abroad. Yet instead of going to Italy, Mexico or Belgium (TIME, April 16, 1973), he joined the small but growing cadre of Americans who are seeking their M.D.s in Communist Rumania...
...years, Harvard students have asked the College to consider changing the calendar to place exams before Christmas break. This year, the Faculty magnanimously decided to start and end a week earlier next year to coincide with the Med School calendar. But it left everything else in its traditional place by slicing days off vacations. Thanks a lot, premeds...
...Harvard's recalcitrance, despite the reluctance of regional director Robert Fuchs to hear the case, despite Fuchs's original ruling against the union, and despite the lengthy delay in the case's resolution by the Washington NLRB, the union prevailed. And now, an election has been scheduled in the Med area for June 29. It is sincerely hoped that the union will win that election, and that the workers will finally gain the representation for which they have fought so hard, and which they so richly deserve...