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...union is also seeking to restrict the hospitals' ability to bring in consulting firms to fight the union. Working with State Rep. Barney Frank, Shea has succeeded in having introduced in the State legislature a bill that would prevent hospitals from using federal funds like Medicaid to pay firms like Modern Management Methods. Beth Israel did so during an unsuccessful unionizing drive in 1974, and a State regulatory agency for hospitals required that the hospital return the money to Medicaid because the expense was not related to patient care. The union's bill has encountered some resistance in the legislature...
...Massachusetts Court of Appeals upheld the NLRB in the Beth Israel case, but in a similar case, a Missouri court ruled that hospitals do have a broad right to restrict pro-union activities on their grounds. The Supreme Court should hear the two cases to resolve the contradictory decisions. The Court should keep an eye to patients' rights, certainly, but it must also assure that there is a forum where unions can reach a long-neglected work force...
Citizens opposed to Radcliffe's plan to construct an athletic facility for Quad residents will present complaints and discuss options to restrict Harvard's development of Observatory Hill, Richard McKinnon, assistant to the city council, said yesterday...
...citizens action group which calls itself the Neighborhood Nine submitted a petition in September to request that the Observatory Hill property be down-zoned to restrict further Harvard development in the area. The proposed athletic facility meets all of the strictest zoning regulations and could still be constructed if the area is down-zoned by the council...
...threatening to block the project if planners did not provide concessions that would limit the plant's emissions. Officials in the state Division of Air and Hazardous Materials should be commended for their extended efforts to overhaul the plant's design and to exact an agreement from Harvard to restrict the allowed emission level of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that can irritate the respiratory system...