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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...
...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 a 100-page report to the hospital accreditation commission detailing inadequacies...
...must file for an enforcement order--in Malin's case in the First U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. This order can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears four or five NLRB cases a year. Since Malin's case involves some fairly novel aspects of the NLRA and its application to workers' rights, it may well go the whole route...
...fired if the incident was repeated. Schunior says she was careful to ask when handing out the pamphlets whether the recipient was a patient or an employee. After this incident, Local 880 filed a grievance with the NLRB charging an unfair labor practice that violated Section 7 of the NLRA. Section 7 guarantees employees the right to choose whether or not they want to join a union. After the complaint was filed, the hospital changed its rule to forbid one-to-one solicitation in the cafeteria in order to force the NLRB to define the rights of a non-proprietary...
Besides the mutual display of hostility evidenced in the disputes, the Supreme Court case presented important legal issues in the untested field of hospital labor law. Since Congress's inclusion of the hospitals under the NLRA in the 1974 Health Care Act Amendments, any legal battle has helped to set precedents by which to judge hospital labor disputes. One legal issue centered around the intent of Congress in including hospitals under the NLRA. The hospital argued that Congress, because it enacted special strike provisions for hospital employees and evidenced concern for the special health care function of hospitals, other labor...