Word: nlrb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election, the workers voted 390-328 against unionization. UAW filed charges with NLRB charging Harvard with union-busting activities after administrators announced a 12 percent wage increase and sent literature to employees' homes urging them to vote against the union...
Harvard UAW is now circulating a questionnaire among workers, which asks them if they want to be unionized. After workers complete these cards, UAW must receive a majority vote in a worker election before the NLRB will consider their union status...
...medical area clerical and technical employees voted against unionization. UAW organizers appealed to the NLRB for another election, but the NLRB rejected the request, arguing that the medical workers do not represent an independent unit...
Currently Harvard workers, are divided into nine NLRB-recognized unions. Clerical and technical workers, who do not belong to unions, are difficult to organize because they have a yearly turnover rate that sometimes reaches close to 50 percent...
District 65 spokesman Kitty Krupat said the strike was averted when Columbia administrators agreed to recognize District 65 if NLRB ratified the union. That decision is still pending, but in the meantime Columbia University will consult the UAW before it changes worker benefits and allows District 65 to represent a worker when that employee reaches a negotiations deadlock with the administration...