Word: nlrb
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...legalistic strategy held good for a while. For two years Richard Levy, the union's attorney, ran up against the stone wall of Harvard's formidable briefs, and in early 1976 the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accepted Harvard's argument. But later that year the parent NLRB in Washington startled University 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...
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...
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...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, yesterday called the University's victory--which capped a lengthy battle in the NLRB to block the election and a more recent publicity campaign against the union--"a tribute to a large number of people thinking about the issues and then going on and voting their wishes...
Sullivan added that "we'll be back again next year." Under NLRB rules the union can file for a new election, but no new vote may take place for another year...