Word: nlrb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to demonstrate to the NLRB that such a bargaining unit is inappropriate under the National Labor Relations Act, Harvard has to show that the University is completely centralized and that the Medical Area is not in the least independent, but merely a subsidiary entity. In 1972, fearing an organizing drive such as the one which took place last year, and recognizing the fact that the Medical Area had a separate personnel office--a situation which University officials knew would endanger their position in the event of hearings such as are now taking place--Harvard revamped its personnel structure. Ropes...
...structure as evidence to refute the organizing committee's claim that Medical Area employees "share a separate community of interest." The new structure does not make the Medical Area any less separate and distinct a part of Harvard, except on the organizational charts which Harvard has submitted to the NLRB...
...wide union would require organizing 4,000 clerical and technical workers, spread throughout Cambridge, Boston, and Allston. The organizing committee has had a difficult enough task just trying to unionize the 800 employees in the Medical Area. But their drive is now almost over--all that remains is the NLRB ruling on their request to hold a union-forming election. Although Harvard maintains that its actions are motivated by administrative necessities, its insistence on a University-wide union appears to be an attempt to head off the entire organizing drive...
Eventually the NLRB hearing officer ruled that it not be admitted, Harvard's motivation for making the changes not being relevant to a non-adversary proceeding...
...Thursday the University had never tried to disguise its desire that unions in the University be University-wide, and said the changes in the personnel office were made "in part" to improve Harvard's case in the event of hearings such as the one now taking place at the NLRB...