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Harvard's two-anda-half year battle against District 65, Distributive Workers of America, which is trying to organize medical area workers, ended in May when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) approved the union's right to hold an election among Med Area employees...
...decision, the NLRB rejected Harvard's contention that the almost 1100 Med Area workers could seek representation only in a University-wide bargaining unit. The surprise ruling, which overturned a regional board decision upholding Harvard's position, concluded the expensive legal bickering and set the stage for an organizing election on June...
Union organizers say they are confident of victory, but Harvard has not given up. Even if District 65 wins the right to represent the Med Area workers, Harvard might refuse to bargain with the union--forcing another round of litigation, this time in the Federal Courts...
...while, as minority applications to the Med School dipped in the fall, it looked as if the controversy sparked last spring over an of Bacterial Physiology, charging that the Med School lowered its standards for minority School lowered its standards for minority students, would have lasting effects. Some last minute recruiting brought the figures up to their normal level, however...
THROUGHOUT THE LONG District 65 controversy, University officials have maintained that they have only been following their logical legal options. This is true--Harvard is too sophisticated an institution to engage in overt union-busting. Yet by opposing the obvious wishes of the Med Area workers for a union of their own, by wasting countless thousands of dollars on high-powered legal talent for the sole purpose of stymieing a legitimate voice for its employees, and by failing to recognize that such opposition only further erodes its already severely tarnished public image, the University has displayed a stubborn unwillingness...