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...Rabkin, however, says the real issue is not delaying the unions, but rather the quality of the health care Beth Israel can give to its patients. "It cost a hell of a lot of money and time to go through the appeals process, and we wouldn't do it for the purpose of delaying," he says. The hospital argued in its brief to the Court that patients' health could suffer if they heard violent arguments about unions, or if they read what he terms "scurrilous" pamphlets questioning the quality of Beth Israel's health care...
...Beth Israel's case against Local 880 reached the Supreme Court in a climate of intense hostility and suspicion engendered by this series of events. In October 1974, Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, director of Beth Israel, ordered a technical employee, Anne Schunior, to stop distributing a union pamphlet in the hospital cafeteria, to which patients and visitors have access. At this time, Beth Israel's rules forbade the distribution of union literature in the cafeteria, although it allowed one-to-one union solicitation by employees of other employees during non-working hours in the cafeteria. The hospital did permit...
...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...
...Shea and Rabkin disagree over the hospital's motives for carrying through the long appeal process. Shea says "Beth Israel was using legal procedure to delay and harass us--the issue was decided against them at every step." He adds the history of hostility between the hospital and the union shows a hospital bias against unions and a willingness to use any tactic to prevent hospital workers from joining unions. By appealing the case, Shea says, the hospital effectively prevented any distribution of union literature for four years...
...central purpose behind the conference," Sarah Rabkin '79, a member of the group said, "is to bring together isolated women on eastern campuses and develop a sense of strength and unity...