Word: nlrb
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...will have a good deal more to keep him busy during the next few months than the theoretical questions he handles so articulately. In the Medical Area, District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, the union chosen by a majority of the clerical and technical employees, petitioned the NLRB in February for permission to hold a union-forming election. Harvard opposes the petition, maintaining that the only appropriate bargaining unit for these workers, under the National Labor Relations Act, would be University-wide...
After months of hearings, the case is now pending before the NLRB's New England regional director Robert Fuchs. If the board favors Harvard, and Powers professes absolute confidence that it will, the union question for the Medical Area will have been effectively laid to rest. But if District 65's petition is upheld after the resolution of a few minor issues related to membership in the bargaining unit, Powers and Harvard will have the touchy problem of an NLRB administered union election--with all its attendant difficulties--on their hands, possibly before the end of the academic year...
...union, on the other hand, devoted a great deal of time and money last spring in an effort to prove to the NLRB that the Medical Area is an almost completely autonomous part of Harvard. Harvard is certainly not taking the case lightly. Whichever side loses here will probably appeal to the national board in Washington...
...circ. 151,000). The strikebreakers are not permitted to join the Guild as long as the original strike continues, so this year they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to have their own group, Employees for Better Working Conditions, designated as the paper's sole bargaining unit. An NLRB election last month was Abruptly canceled when the Guild withdrew from the running. Says Guild Spokesman Dick Pattison: "It didn't make much sense for us to be on the ballot when the only ones voting would be the strikebreakers...
...Guild's withdrawal is being interpreted by NLRB negotiators as a formal end of the 90-month strike, and the agency now recognizes the new group as the Herald's official union. Except, that is, for a couple of further complications. Herald executives, mindful of the paper's 42% drop in circulation since the original strike began and reluctant to face another walkout, are appealing the NLRB decision. Though most of the 1967 strikers have long since found other jobs, the Guild is still holding out for a settlement. But the scabs' union hopes to negotiate...