Word: nlrb
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Harvard United Auto Workers (UAW) Organizer Kristene Rondeau, who has been working for the last several years to get the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to ratify a Harvard clerical and technical workers union, said the University cannot ignore the importance of the Yale workers' gains...
...newly proposed bill imposes a $10,000 fine for failure to keep good-records, making the detection of violations more likely. This proposal would more than double the enforcement staff, working up to a $30 million increase in the budgets of the DOL and National Labor Relations Board d(NLRB) specifically for cases involving the exploitation of undocumented workers...
Lather this month Harvard finally got what it wanted. The NLRB over turned a 1977 decision which had entitled their Medical Area workers to from their own union, forcing Harvard UAW to now organize campus-wide a much more difficult task...
...hard Harvard was willing to work for it. The General Counsel's office spent a great deal of time and money keeping the case active, lobbying for reconsideration. Even if the union had won one of the elections in 1977 or 1981. Harvard would have ignored the 1977 NLRB ruling and refused to negotiate with the union, forcing the matter into the courts--where it probably would have remained for years to get its side a second hearing. Harvard's financial and legal resources won this moth's decision and would probably have prevailed over a fledgling union...
...wary of using unfair leverage to oppose the union' Workers have the right to unionize and Harvard must respect that right Certainly the University can, and should, push the home team in the months before an election. But Harvard must not interfere with the drive itself. Last year the NLRB cleared the University of any wrong-doing in the 1981 election, but this month's ruling is testimony to Harvard's power--either through intimidation or legal manuvering to prevent workers the chance to unionize if they so desire...