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Rabkin then followed up his verbal warning with a letter telling Schunior she would be fired if the incident was repeated. Schunior says she was careful to ask when handing out the pamphlets whether the recipient was a patient or an employee. After this incident, Local 880 filed a grievance with the NLRB charging an unfair labor practice that violated Section 7 of the NLRA. Section 7 guarantees employees the right to choose whether or not they want to join a union. After the complaint was filed, the hospital changed its rule to forbid one-to-one solicitation...
Another issue centered on the so-called St. John's rule, a case decided by the NLRB which stated that in other than immediate patient care areas, the hospitals should allow union solicitation and distribution of literature. However, as the Tenth Circuit Appeals Court of St. Louis reversed this NLRB decision, the hospital challenged the Board's rationale...
Justices Blackmun, Powell and Burger, however, stressed in their opinion that they believed hospitals should receive more consideration from the Board to protect the quality of patient care. For this reason, the union and the hospital disagree over how broad a precedent the case poses. "It's the first Supreme Court decision of this kind, and it is certainly clear in the case of Beth Israel, though there will probably be a lot more cases," says Shea. Chandler, lawyer for the hospital, says, "I don't think there's any question that this is not a broad decision, and does...
...concentrate its organizing efforts on non-Harvard local hospitals, such as St. Elizabeth's in Brighton. Chandler, for his part, says he expects other legal decisions in the future to corroborate Beth Israel's view that hospitals merit special consideration from NLRB because their primary function is non-profit patient care...
Speedier trials would also help witnesses less patient than Patricia Finck, a Philadelphia A & P cashier who went back to court 46 times to get two stickup men convicted. "After three or four continuances of a case," says Patrick Healy, the executive director of the National District Attorneys Association, "unless you're really a devoted witness, you'll kiss it off. After all, what's in it for you? This business of civic pride goes so far. And the smart defendant and the smart defense lawyer will delay a case to death...