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Workers at Preterm Inc., a Brookline abortion clinic to which the University Health Services sometimes refers students, voted Wednesday to strike after management refused to accept union demands for a closed shop...
Elliot Small, president of Hospital and Health Care Workers Local 1199, said yesterday Preterm was not bargaining in good faith and was seeking to avoid a contract with the union altogether...
Diane Richards, director of Preterm, said yesterday she was opposed to the union-shop clause because it would deny freedom of choice to prospective employees who don't want to join the union...
However, Small said yesterday Preterm was primarily against the union for economic reasons and because a contract would reduce Preterm's control over its workforce...
Small said yesterday that if there is no progress before October 16--the day the strike vote becomes effective--the union, representing 68 workers at Preterm, would file charges of unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board...